Accuracy Quote by Denis Hayes

“If our 14 billion year cosmic history were scaled to 1 year, then 100,000 years of human history would be 4 minutes, and a…

— Max Tegmark

Two seconds are a thousand years.

— Andre Kertesz

We have again a strange gap. We have the big scientific discoveries around the second, third century BC. Then we have an invention of…

— Garry Kasparov

I missed the day in school where you subtract all the zeros. Let's say you subtract 10,000 minus 89. I never got the fact…

— Rich Fulcher

The critical first billion years, during which life began, are blank pages in the earth's history.

— Robert Jastrow

Over the years, a number of very smart people have learned the hard way that a long string of impressive numbers multiplied by a…

— Warren Buffett

“In the history of culture the discovery of zero will always stand out as one of the greatest single achievements of the human race.”

— Tobias Dantzig

No number before zero. The numbers may go on forever, but like the cosmos, they have a beginning.

— Giuseppe Peano

We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open.

— Eugene O'Neill

“A billion hours ago, modern Homo sapiens emerged. A billion minutes ago, Christianity began. A billion seconds ago, the IBM personal computer was released.…

— Laszlo Bock