Billions Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Luckily, there are some rocks left over from our earliest days, asteroids formed during our solar system's birth. Occasionally, some of them drop in…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“About 4.6 billion years ago, a great swirl of gas and dust some 24 billion kilometres across accumulated in space where we are now…

— Bill Bryson

If we want to unlock the secret behind the origin of our sun and its planets, it would be helpful to find some remnants…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Do you realize that we're meteorites; almost as soon as we're born, we have to disappear?

— Iannis Xenakis

The same Being that fashioned the insect, whose existence is only discerned by a microscope, and gave that invisible speck a system of ducts…

— Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

“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

We still don't know for sure what the trigger was, but since we've discovered meteorites with supernova dust, we do know that a violent…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Despite a full century of scientific insights attesting to the antiquity of the earth, more than half of our neighbors believe that the entire…

— Sam Harris

It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and every observation,…

— William John Wills

One of the most striking results of modern investigation has been the way in which several different and quite independent lines of evidence indicate…

— Henry Norris Russell

I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that make up…

— George Wald

“For the first billion years, the universe continued to expand and cool as matter gravitated into the massive concentrations we call galaxies. Nearly a…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson