Thousand Million Quotes
18 quotes by 15 authors
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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
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A hundred thousand million Stars make one Galaxy; A hundred thousand million Galaxies make one Universe. The figures may not be very trustworthy, but I…
— Arthur Eddington
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Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects. Although the tiniest…
— Michael Denton
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The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and…
— E F Schumacher
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Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
— Harold Pinter
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The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing. . . . The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds is a stupendous…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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You're here to sweat. This program is live. There's about one thousand million people watching you. So, you remember - one wrong word, one foolish…
— Paul Hogan
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Ten thousand million nightmares, temptation by the score, I used to get so high, and still I wanted more. You think my time is wasted…
— Ozzy Osbourne
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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
— Barry Humphries
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Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later.
— Douglas Adams
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In this way, Edwin Hubble worked out the distances to nine different galaxies. We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred…
— Stephen Hawking
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And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of…
— Alan Moore
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The mountains are great stone bells; they clang together like nuns. Who shushed the stars? There are a thousand million galaxies easily seen in the…
— Annie Dillard
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In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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One of the most striking results of modern investigation has been the way in which several different and quite independent lines of evidence indicate that…
— Henry Norris Russell
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If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it…
— Stephen Hawking
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
— Harold Pinter
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Swagga on a hundred thousand million and beyond. I see you talking to ya friends looking at me in the corner of ya eye. You…
— Mindless Behavior
Who Wrote These Thousand Million Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 18 Thousand Million Quotes as follows: