Hundred Billion Quotes
20 quotes by 18 authors
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
— A. R. Ammons
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The human brain is estimated to have about a hundred billion nerve cells, two million miles of axons, and a million billion synapses, making it…
— Tim Green
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With its hundred billion nerve cells, with their hundred trillion interconnections, the human brain is the most complex phenomenon in the known universe - always,…
— Steven Rose
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[O]ne might ask why, in a galaxy of a few hundred billion stars, the aliens are so intent on coming to Earth at all. It…
— Seth Shostak
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Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep…
— Richard Dawkins
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The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among…
— Stephen Hawking
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Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A…
— Ernest Cline
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The brain is a three pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion light-years across.
— Marian Diamond
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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…
— Carl Sagan
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That is the spiral galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It consists…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everything else is different? No, we've got seven other planets. The…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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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…
— Carl Sagan
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I've read that a naked eye can see six thousand stars in the hundred billion galaxies, but I couldn't believe it, what with the sky…
— William Least Heat-Moon
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There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national…
— Richard P. Feynman
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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…
— Carl Sagan
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I don't want five hundred billion neural chips. I want guts.
— Mary E. Pearson
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If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold…
— Dan Simmons
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...the total number of galaxies in the universe seems to be in the region of ten billion, and that each of them has about a…
— Erlend Loe
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I cannot possibly conceive of my planet Earth as the centre of a three-tiered universe. I know rather that the sun, around which my planet…
— John Shelby Spong
Who Wrote These Hundred Billion Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 20 Hundred Billion Quotes as follows: