Civilisation Quote by Carl Sagan

“A hundred years of scholarly thinking has stretched back a million-fold the age of the Earth. But these same diviners, antiquarians and scholars are…

— Doris Lessing

We might expect intelligent life and technological communities to have emerged in the universe billions of years ago. Given that human society is only…

— Paul Davies

If usually the "present age" is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity of meaning…

— Josiah Royce

We are just a blip. I found it very interesting when Clive [Oppenheimer] interviewed the Ethiopian scientists and asked them, "Do we have another…

— Werner Herzog

“The earth is over a million years old; respect your elders.”

— Deanna Anderson

“Our lives are small temporally as well as spatially: if this 14-billion-year cosmic history were scaled to one year, then 100,000 years of human…

— Max Tegmark

What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.

— Emile Chartier

The six thousand years of human history form but a portion of the geologic day that is passing over us: they do not extend…

— Hugh Miller

“A million years is a short time - the shortest worth messing with for most problems. You begin tuning your mind to a time…

— John McPhee

“Play that cosmic tape backward, and everything converges down to a point about 13.7 billion years ago. That’s the Big Bang. The light from…

— Robert M. Hazen

“Part of the resistance to Darwin and Wallace derives from our difficulty in imagining the passage of the millennia, much less the aeons. What…

— Carl Sagan

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

— Howard Rheingold