Billion Years Quotes

85 Billion Years quotes by 55 unique authors

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 hands—really, in our libraries—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
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. Information distilled over… — Carl Sagan
A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important. — D. A. Carson
This is the result of six billion years of evolution. Tonight, we have given the lie to gravity.We have reached for the stars. — Ray Bradbury
The planet earth has a life span of eight billion years, give or take a few million. People have been around for approximately forty thousand… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl
The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won’t be able to tell… — Arthur Bloch
Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a… — John Polkinghorne
Earth has provided a stable platform for the evolution of life over 4 billion years. But that lease is limited; we know for sure that… — Robert Shapiro
We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being. — Bob Brown
[Attributing the origin of life to spontaneous generation.] However improbable we regard this event, it will almost certainly happen at least once.... The time... is… — George Wald
If I lived a billion years more, in my body or yours, there's not a single experience on Earth that could ever be as good… — Di Morrissey

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