Billion Years Quotes

85 Billion Years quotes by 55 unique authors

We come from an environment molded from 3 billion years of evolution, and when we change our behavior, there may be problems. — W. Richard Stevens
We are made out of stardust. The iron in the hemoglobin molecules in the blood in your right hand came from a star that blew… — Jill Tarter
Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds… — Stephen Jay Gould
The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so… — Richard Dawkins
After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new… — John Polkinghorne
The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years of other acts,… — Carl Sagan
Everything matters. The Universe is approximately fifteen billion years old, and I swear that in all that time, nothing has ever happened that has not… — Robertson Davies
One small changed family doesn't calculate into a world that has been spinning for a billion years. But one small change makes the world spin… — Mary E. Pearson
There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten… — Carl Sagan
He Is looking at me through the smoke, across the fence. He never takes his eyes off me. His hair Is a crown of leaves,… — Lauren Oliver
In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded beyond detection. Indeed,… — Lawrence M. Krauss
The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an… — Carl Sagan
Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric… — Mark Twain
People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width of North America… — Richard Dawkins
If the age of the Earth were a calendar year and today were a breath before midnight on New Year's Eve, we showed up a… — Janine Benyus
I am a creationist and an evolutionist. Evolution is God's, or Nature's method of creation. Creation is not an event that happened in 4004 BC;… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
We are made out of stardust. The iron in the hemoglobin molecules in the blood in your right hand came from a star that blew… — Jill Tarter
Humans are remarkable: the first species in almost four billion years of life on earth that dominates the biosphere. This gives us the power, in… — David Christian
Give consideration to the fact that alien astronomers could have scrutinized Earth for more than 4 billion years without detecting any radio signals, despite the… — Seth Shostak
The Moon is a ball of left-over debris from a cosmic collision that took place more than four billion years ago. A Mars-sized asteroid -… — Seth Shostak
Consider: Life arose on Earth close to four billion years ago. Four billion years of slithering, swimming, and soaring life forms. But only in the… — Seth Shostak
The stupendous time spans of the evolutionary past are now part of common culture (though maybe not in the United States Bible Belt, nor in… — Martin Rees
From an evolutionary standpoint, human consciousness has not been around very long. A little light just went on after four and a half billion years.… — Elon Musk
There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say… — Hannes Alfven

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