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Billions Quotes by Carl Sagan
- Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural.... In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills manufactured from pulverized…
- Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?"…
- A millennium before Europeans were willing to divest themselves of the Biblical idea that the world was a few thousand years old, the Mayans were…
- 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…
- A still more glorious dawn awaits / not a sunrise, but a galaxy-rise / a morning filled with 400 billion suns / the rising of…
- 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…
- 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.…
- Billions and billions.
- I never said it. Honest. Oh, I said there are maybe 100 billion galaxies and 10 billion trillion stars. It's hard to talk about the…
- There are in fact 100 billion galaxies, each of which contain something like a 100 billion stars. Think of how many stars, and planets, and…
- 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…
- 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…
- A stars rich in europium; of distant galaxies analyzed through the collective light of a hundred billion constituent stars. Astronomical spectroscopy is an almost magical…
- We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make up…
- Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you…
- 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,…
- You mustn't think of the Universe as a wilderness. It hasn't been that for billions of years," he said. "Think of it more as... ..cultivated.
- 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…
- We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing…
- 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…
- A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
- For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an…
More Billions Quotes
- Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course,… — Rowan Atkinson
- After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington… — Michele Bachmann
- There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me. — Erykah Badu
- Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything. — Dave Barry
- The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's second largest… — Bob Beauprez
- Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people. — Samantha Bee
- Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed… — Joe Biden
- A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion.… — Lewis Black
- If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline. — Richard Branson
- Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims around the… — John O. Brennan
- Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of… — Sherrod Brown
- With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year. — Gro Harlem Brundtland