Million Years Quotes

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Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that… — David Attenborough
Humbled by the fact that never in a million years would I ever thought that I would be on the same stage with all these… — Wade Boggs
Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what no… — Jacob Bronowski
The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild… — Charles Galton Darwin
(When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.) When the movie Jurassic Park… — Carl Sagan
Solid stone is just sand and water...Sand and water and a million years gone by. — Beth Nielsen Chapman
There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into… — Winston Churchill
What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our… — Carl Sagan
Do you realize we've got 250 million years of coal? But coal has got environmental hazards to it, but there's-I'm convinced, and I know that… — George W. Bush
About two million years ago, man appeared. He has become the dominant species on the earth. All other living things, animal and plant, live by… — George Wald
Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would eventually type out… — Peter Kreeft
My kids and I sometimes will just sit in my office and talk about what the world was like 68 million years ago. Amanda, our… — Phil Mickelson
Our ancestors were eating meat over 2.5 million years ago. We mainly ate meat, fish, fruits, vegetables and nuts. We have to assume our physiology… — Lionel Tiger
We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have… — Mark Twain
I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved,… — William Herschel
In Grimm's fairy tales, you kiss a frog and in two seconds, it becomes a prince. That is a fairy tale. In evolution, you kiss… — D. James Kennedy
Since Serengeti-scale savanna scenes are only one or two million years old, our earliest after-the-apes ancestors didn't move into this scene so much as they… — William H. Calvin
About fifty million years ago...geological evidence indicates CO2 levels were several thousand ppm, much higher than now. And life flourished abundantly. — William Happer
The Earth is warming but physical evidence from around the world tells us that human-emitted carbon dioxide has played only a minor role in it.… — Fred Singer
We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at least five million… — Norman Myers

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