Billion Years Quotes

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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
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
Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors. — Max Delbruck
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
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
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
I was there when Abbe Georges LemaÃ®tre first proposed this [Big Bang] theory. ... There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has… — Hannes Alfven
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Four billion years ago the planet Earth was molten rock; now it sings opera! — Brian Swimme

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