Four Billion Quotes
25 quotes by 22 authors
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When you factor in population growth, it's clear that the mobility model that we have today simply will not work tomorrow. Four billion clean cars…
— Bill Ford
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Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production - only…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in…
— Stephen Batchelor
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Four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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Of the four billion life forms which have existed on this planet, three billion, nine hundred and sixty million are now extinct. We don't know…
— P.D. James
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You try to make the world a better place and what does it get you? I mean, Christ, how the hell does one man stand…
— Daniel Clowes
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Four billion years ago the planet Earth was molten rock; now it sings opera!
— Brian Swimme
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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
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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…
— Robert Frenay
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We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.
— Gary Hamel
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Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are…
— Andrew Wiles
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The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.
— Matt Ridley
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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
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There are 6.6 billion people on the planet today. With organic farming we could only feed four billion of them. Which two billion would volunteer…
— Norman Borlaug
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It's important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it's…
— Elon Musk
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There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into…
— Elon Musk
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Life is like a recycling center, where all the concerns and dramas of humankind get recycled back and forth across the universe. But what you…
— Anne Lamott
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Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is still the same. It's bad with large numbers. It's still taken by particularity. It flits…
— Wislawa Szymborska
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Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd…
— Bill Gates
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On a macro level, four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
Who Wrote These Four Billion Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 25 Four Billion Quotes as follows: