Asteroids Quote by Elizabeth Kolbert

With respect to phenomena like mass extinction, somebody might say why worry about it because in a geological perspective mass extinctions aren't so bad,…

— Richard Lewontin

To be fair, if we are having a mass extinction, we're in the early stages of it. I think it's knowing facts like that…

— Annalee Newitz

“Recent studies funded by Britain’s Natural Environment Research Council provide support for those concerns. (Thomas, et al, 2004; Stevens, et al, 2004) While there…

— Bruce H. Lipton

The fate of the vast majority of species on this planet has been extinction, eventually.

— Alice Roberts

An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this…

— Rusty Schweickart

There is good reason to believe that we have already entered the Sixth Extinction, a period of destruction of species on a massive scale,…

— Noam Chomsky

If enough species are extinguished, will the ecosystems collapse, and will the extinction of most other species follow soon afterward? The only answer anyone…

— E. O. Wilson

If our extinction proceeds slowly enough to allow a moment of horrified realization, the doers of the deed will likely be quite taken aback…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

Our planet is currently undergoing a mass extinction of species called the Anthropocene - the Age of Man.

— Louie Psihoyos

In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious…

— Cameron Russell

The extinctions ongoing worldwide promise to be at least as great as the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the age of…

— E. O. Wilson

Many scientists would argue that we are now in what is called Extinction, and it's caused by this perfect extinction storm: climate change, habitat…

— Jeff Corwin