Billion Years Quotes

85 Billion Years quotes by 55 unique authors

If you let hydrogen gas alone for 13 billion years it will become giraffes, rose bushes and humans. — Brian Swimme
For the first time in four billion years a living creature had contemplated himself and heard with a sudden, unaccountable loneliness, the whisper of the… — Loren Eiseley
I call the transformed world toward which we can move â€˜sustainable,â€™ by whichÂ I mean a great deal more than a world that merely sustains… — Donella Meadows
We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all… — James Lovelock
When I was a child, the Earth was said to be two billion years old. Now scientists say it's four and a half billion. So… — Paul Erdos
It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago. — Hannes Alfven
It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years… — George Gamow
Every living thing is an elaboration of a single original plan. As humans we are mere increments - each of us a musty archive of… — Bill Bryson
Nature is flexible and resilient. Nature likes redundancy and dispersion. It is approximate and deals in gradients. All boundaries are permeable. Nature nests small systems… — Unknown Author
We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation. — Gary Hamel
Every time we lose a species webreak a life chain which has evolved over 3.5 billion years. — Unknown Author
In five billion years, the sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day — Neil deGrasse Tyson
We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. We are the legacy of 15… — Carl Sagan
No longer mere earthbeings and planetbeings are we, but bright children of the stars! And together we shall dance in and out of ten billion… — Sid Meier
I will deliver to the Gambian people and if I have to rule this country for one billion years, I will, if Allah says so. — Yahya Jammeh
We now have in our handsâ€”really, in our librariesâ€”the technology to feed, clothe, and supply energy to an ever-growing population for the next seven billion… — Julian Simon
We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary process has stopped.… — Carl Sagan
The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years. — Matt Ridley
For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained… — Albert Claude
After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be… — Carl Sagan

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