--- title: "9 Earth Billion Quotes by 9 authors" description: "Browse 9 Earth Billion quotes by 9 authors. Discover the best Earth Billion sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fea/james-toback-23241_billion_to-have-six-billion-people-on-earth-two_358812.jpg" --- > [To have six billion people on Earth, two billion of whom are carrying around a warped view of you? That has to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-toback/to-have-six-billion-people-on-earth-two-billion-of-whom-are-carrying/) [James Toback](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-toback/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fea/james-toback-23241_billion_to-have-six-billion-people-on-earth-two_358812.jpg) > [Our galaxy is 10 billion years old. The Earth is only 4.5 billion years old. We are a firefly flicker in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-marcy/our-galaxy-is-10-billion-years-old-the-earth-is-only-4-5-billion/) [Geoffrey Marcy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-marcy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/080/geoffrey-marcy-64559_earth_our-galaxy-is-10-billion-years-old-the-e_55676.jpg) > [More than a billion people have downloaded Google Earth. More than a billion people use Google Maps. They are very comfortable tools…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-moore/more-than-a-billion-people-have-downloaded-google-earth-more-than-a/) [Rebecca Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-moore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36d/rebecca-moore-62411_billions_more-than-a-billion-people-have-download_1814578.jpg) > [“According to recent estimates, life on Earth will last for another billion years, until it will be destroyed by the increase in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/luciano-floridi/according-to-recent-estimates-life-on-earth-will-last-for-another/) [Luciano Floridi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/luciano-floridi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e09/luciano-floridi-57133_life_according-to-recent-estimates-life-on-ea_1703463.jpg) > [A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-lovelock/a-billion-could-live-off-the-earth-6-billion-living-as-we-do-is-far/) [James Lovelock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-lovelock/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09c/james-lovelock-5790_billions_a-billion-could-live-off-the-earth-6-bil_1395347.jpg) > [Interestingly, modern science has estimated that the age of the earth is about 4 billion years. Scholars feel it is uncanny that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/subhash-kak/interestingly-modern-science-has-estimated-that-the-age-of-the-earth/) [Subhash Kak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/subhash-kak/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd4/subhash-kak-39000_age_interestingly-modern-science-has-estimat_1992856.jpg) > [“A billion hours ago, human life appeared on earth. A billion minutes ago, Christianity emerged. A billion seconds ago, the Beatles changed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-standage/a-billion-hours-ago-human-life-appeared-on-earth-a-billion-minutes/) [Tom Standage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-standage/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d2/tom-standage-21003_christianity_a-billion-hours-ago-human-life-appeared_326471.png) > [At the beginning of the 20th century, there were less than 3 billion people on the earth, closer to 2 billion. By…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-mitchell/at-the-beginning-of-the-20th-century-there-were-less-than-3-billion/) [Edgar Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-mitchell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f58/edgar-mitchell-6104_20th-century_at-the-beginning-of-the-20th-century-the_2133479.jpg) > [“It goes something like this: I am one person among 6.5 billion people on Earth at the moment. That's one person among…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-c-parkin/it-goes-something-like-this-i-am-one-person-among-6-5-billion-people/) [John C. Parkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-c-parkin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/82f/john-c-parkin-52876_astronomy_it-goes-something-like-this-i-am-one-per_1641284.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/earth-billion/#itemlist", "name": "Earth Billion Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "To have six billion people on Earth, two billion of whom are carrying around a warped view of you? 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That's one person among 6,500,000,000 people. That'a lot of Wembley Stadiums full of people, and even more double-decker buses (apparently the standard British measurements for size). And we live on an Earth that is spinning at 67,000 miles an hour through space around a sun that is the centre of our solar system (and our solar system is spinning around the centre of the Milky Way at 530,000 mph). Just our solar system (which is a tiny speck within the entire universe) is very big indeed. If Earth was a peppercorn and Jupiter was a chestnut (the standard American measurements), you'd have to place them 100 metres apart to get a sense of the real distance between us. And this universe is only one of many. In fact, the chances are that there are many, many more populated Earths - just like ours - in other universes. And that's just space. Have a look at time, too. If you're in for a good run, you may spend 85 years on this Earth. Man has been around for 100,000 years, so you're going to spend just 0.00085 percent of man's history living on this Earth. And Man's stay on Earth has been very short in the context of the life of the Earth (which is 4.5 billion years old): if the Earth had been around for the equivalent of a day (with the Big Bang kicking it all off at midnight), humans didn't turn up until 11.59.58 p.m. That means we've only been around for the last two seconds. A lifetime is gone in a flash. There are relatively few people on this Earth that were here 100 years ago. Just as you'll be gone (relatively) soon. So, with just the briefest look at the spatial and temporal context of our lives, we are utterly insignificant. As the Perspective Machine lifts up so far above the woods that we forget what the word means, we see just one moving light. It is beautiful. A small, gently glowing light. It is a firefly lost somewhere in the cosmos. And a firefly - on Earth - lives for just one night. It glows beautifully, then goes out. And up there so high in our Perspective Machine we realize that our lives are really just like that of the firefly. Except the air is full of 6.5 billion fireflies. They're glowing beautifully for one night. Then they are gone. So, Fuck It, you might as well REALLY glow.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John C. 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