Earth Quote by John Polkinghorne

After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of…

— John Polkinghorne

We know from astronomy that the universe had a beginning, from physics that the future is both open and unpredictable, from geology and paleontology…

— Kenneth R. Miller

“The actual structure of the life we know is deeply and pervasively anchored in the particularities of the periodic table. If one wishes to…

— Eric Smith

Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Sometime in the first billion years, life appeared on the earth's surface. Slowly, the fossil record indicates, living organisms climbed the ladder from simple…

— Robert Jastrow

From a personal perspective, I am disappointed that we have yet to really achieve a full understanding of the origins of life on Earth.…

— Martin Rees

On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“When the Earth was only about a third of its eventual size, it was probably already beginning to form an atmosphere, mostly of carbon…

— Bill Bryson

“Life on earth evolved gradually beginning with one primitive life form – perhaps a self-replicating molecule – that lived more than 3.5 billion years…

— Jerry A. Coyne

The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very few factual…

— John Desmond Bernal

Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material.

— Michael Behe

If the hypothesis of evolution is true, living matter must have arisen from non-living matter; for by the hypothesis the condition of the globe…

— Thomas Huxley