Age Quote by Hugh Miller

“A hundred years of scholarly thinking has stretched back a million-fold the age of the Earth. But these same diviners, antiquarians and scholars are…

— Doris Lessing

If usually the "present age" is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity of meaning…

— Josiah Royce

“In the penultimate stages of writing this book, the date of the great exodus from Africa may have shifted more than 10,000 years earlier…

— Adam Rutherford

“To get a sense of the scale of Earth history, imagine walking back in time, a hundred years per step—every pace equal to more…

— Robert M. Hazen

“The Archean Eon was followed by the Proterozoic Eon, each billions of years; then the Paleozoic: the Cambrian’s seventy million years, the Ordovician’s sixty…

— Liu Cixin

“Our lives are small temporally as well as spatially: if this 14-billion-year cosmic history were scaled to one year, then 100,000 years of human…

— Max Tegmark

We're addicted to this concept of civilization - we can't imagine living outside of it because we've had it for 10,000 years, all of…

— Serj Tankian

What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades;…

— Carl Sagan

Thinking about the new epoch - often called the Anthropocene, or the age of humanity - challenges us to look at ourselves in the…

— David Grinspoon

Whether the earth was created in seven days or seven actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one…

— Marco Rubio

The whole story is about change. We are very lucky that the earth's history is recorded in fossilized remains. And we can see the…

— Richard Leakey

Interestingly, modern science has estimated that the age of the earth is about 4 billion years. Scholars feel it is uncanny that the Vedic…

— Subhash Kak