Day after christmas Quote by Joi Ito

“The Earth is 4.54 billion years old. A span of time that big is too mind-boggling to comprehend, so let’s collapse the planet’s entire…

— Ed Yong

We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of…

— Carl Sagan

Take the entire 4.5-billion-year history of the earth and scale it down to a single year, with January 1 being the origin of the…

— Neil Shubin

“If the entire course of evolution were compressed into a single year, the earliest bacteria would appear at the end of March, but we…

— Jerry A. Coyne

“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

If the age of the Earth were a calendar year and today were a breath before midnight on New Year's Eve, we showed up…

— Janine Benyus

“…imagine that the earth—four thousand six hundred million years old—[were] a forty-six-year-old woman…. It had taken the whole of the Earth Woman’s life for…

— Arundhati Roy

“If you imagine the 4,500-bilion-odd years of Earth's history compressed into a normal earthly day, then life begins very early, about 4 A.M., with…

— Bill Bryson

“Current theories on the creation of the Universe state that, if it were created at all and didn't just start, as it were, unofficially,…

— Terry Pratchett

“Then to give the kids a historical perspective, Chacko told them about the earth woman. He made them imagine that the earth - 4600…

— Arundhati Roy

I was just at the newly opened Creationist Museum in Kentucky… And they have this exhibit of a giant dinosaur...with a saddle on its…

— Bill Maher

“Mr. Lockery—my biology teacher—says if dinosaurs were magically brought forward in time today, we’d have nothing to worry about. Dogs, wolves, and bears would…

— Robert J. Sawyer