Isaac Asimov Quote by Max Tegmark

“And after that, there was only the ship, large and glistening; the cool production of 12,000 years of Imperial progress; and himself, with his…

— Isaac Asimov

History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.

— Terence McKenna

“Three million years! The infinitely crowded panorama of written history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered barely one…

— Arthur C. Clarke

If I write something set 60 years in the future, I am going to have to explain how humanity got there, and that's becoming…

— William Gibson

The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.

— Walter Jon Williams

In perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a new story,…

— Philippe Starck

Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years.

— George Stephen

I'm the world's original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.

— Thurgood Marshall

We are just a blip. I found it very interesting when Clive [Oppenheimer] interviewed the Ethiopian scientists and asked them, "Do we have another…

— Werner Herzog

The history of Napoleon now becomes, for 12 momentous years, the history of mankind.

— John Holland Rose

“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

Edward Banfield's idea of the "long time horizon," says that more successful people look further into the future, judging their efforts and results in…

— Tom Butler-Bowdon