Billion Years Quotes
85 quotes by 57 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.
— Max Delbruck
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Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this…
— George Wald
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A star is drawing on some vast reservoir of energy by means unknown to us. This reservoir can scarcely be other than the subatomic energy…
— Arthur Eddington
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For a billion years the patient earth amassed documents and inscribed them with signs and pictures which lay unnoticed and unused. Today, at last, they…
— Hans Cloos
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I was there when Abbe Georges Lemaître first proposed this [Big Bang] theory. ... There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has…
— Hannes Alfven
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Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production - only…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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We are all together in this, we are all together in this single living ecosystem called planet earth. As we learn how we fit into…
— Sylvia Earle
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It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in…
— Stephen Batchelor
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Some 5 billion years from now, there will be a last perfect day on Earth... then the sun will begin to die, life will be…
— Carl Sagan
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This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant; I…
— Herman Melville
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We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that the planet has been…
— Marston Bates
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The energy of the stars becomes us. We become the energy of the stars. Stardust and spirit unite and we begin: one with the universe,…
— Dennis Kucinich
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About a billion years ago, long before the continents had separated to define the ancient oceans, or their own outlines had been determined, a small…
— James A. Michener
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On 24 October 1944 Planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years.
— James A. Michener
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Four billion years ago the planet Earth was molten rock; now it sings opera!
— Brian Swimme
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