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Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural.... In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills manufactured from pulverized… — Carl Sagan
The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed… — Abraham Flexner
A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of food, shelter, peace, and cultural… — Vanna Bonta
If we ever establish contact with intelligent aliens living on a planet around a distant star ... They would be made of similar atoms to… — Martin Rees
With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have ever been born.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
We are on a planet of seven billion people, five billion mobile subscriptions. — Paul Conneally
Ladies and gentlemen, a picture is not worth a thousand words. We found some pictures that are worth 500 billion words. — Erez Lieberman Aiden
When you factor in population growth, it's clear that the mobility model that we have today simply will not work tomorrow. Four billion clean cars… — Bill Ford
It's not just the over $8 billion that we would be saving in law enforcement; it's also the over $8 billion that we would be… — Arianna Huffington
Can anything match that first fine discovery of the telephone and all it stood for? That first realization that, contained within ten simple digits, lay… — Alan Coren
I actually did vote for the $87 billion, before I voted against it. — John F. Kerry
I'm just one of the 1.3 billion Chinese. — Yao Ming
Sometimes it can feel like there are a billion people on my shoulders. — Yao Ming
In the beginning there were only probabilities. The universe could only come into existence if someone observed it. It does not matter that the observers… — Martin Rees
Most educated people are aware that we're the outcome of nearly 4 billion years of Darwinian selection, but many tend to think that humans are… — Martin Rees
Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in it for me? — Peter De Vries
I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that make up ninety-nine… — George Wald
The Europeans and the Americans are not throwing $10 billion down this gigantic tube for nothing. We're exploring the very forefront of physics and cosmology… — Michio Kaku
Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?"… — Carl Sagan
Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors. — Max Delbruck

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