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- 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…
- 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 -…
- 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…
More Billion Years Quotes
- If we ever establish contact with intelligent aliens living on a planet around a distant star ... They would be made of… — Martin Rees
- In the beginning there were only probabilities. The universe could only come into existence if someone observed it. It does not matter… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — George Wald
- A star is drawing on some vast reservoir of energy by means unknown to us. This reservoir can scarcely be other than… — Arthur Eddington
- For a billion years the patient earth amassed documents and inscribed them with signs and pictures which lay unnoticed and unused. Today,… — Hans Cloos
- I was there when Abbe Georges Lemaître first proposed this [Big Bang] theory. ... There is no rational reason to doubt that… — Hannes Alfven
- Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey… — Barbara Ehrenreich
- We are all together in this, we are all together in this single living ecosystem called planet earth. As we learn how… — Sylvia Earle