August Quote by Carl Sagan

We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of…

— Carl Sagan

The James Webb Space Telescope was specifically designed to see the first stars and galaxies that were formed in the universe. So we're gonna…

— John M. Grunsfeld

Take the entire 4.5-billion-year history of the earth and scale it down to a single year, with January 1 being the origin of the…

— Neil Shubin

“If the entire course of evolution were compressed into a single year, the earliest bacteria would appear at the end of March, but we…

— Jerry A. Coyne

If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a…

— Martin Rees

We believe human begins have existed for only a small fraction of cosmic history, because human race has been improving so rapidly in knowledge…

— Stephen Hawking

To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery.…

— Clarence Darrow

“It is perhaps worth noticing that we have arrived 'on the scene' at a fairly early date. By this I mean that the time…

— Jamal Nazrul Islam

We all begin much much much earlier. In fact, every one of us - every nation, every individual begins hundreds, perhaps thousands of years…

— Amos Oz

The cosmic calendar is quite a fertile mode for communicating how small we are over time and space.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The Earth is 4.54 billion years old. A span of time that big is too mind-boggling to comprehend, so let’s collapse the planet’s entire…

— Ed Yong

No human being really begins on the day which appears in the passport as their date of birth. We all begin much much much…

— Amos Oz