Ancestor Quote by Nikola Tesla

In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life.

— S. Jay Olshansky

“It’s important to keep in mind that when viewed against the full scale of our species’ existence, ten thousand years is but a brief…

— Christopher Ryan

Some say that now that 50 years have passed, we would like another 50 more years to celebrate once again; that means it will…

— Bhumibol Adulyadej

It is astonishing to realise that the human species survived hundreds of thousands of years, more than 99 percent of its time on this…

— Leonard Hayflick

Congratulations on turning eighty. You are closer from being a centenarian more than ever.

— Anonymous

I'm lucky: almost all my family has lived to be very old. I have one grandfather who lived to be 100.

— Annette Bening

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

“Tuatara have been around a thousand times longer than humans. Just think about that. To survive as long as the tuatara, humans would have…

— John Green

“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

“Homo erectus, ‘Upright Man’, who survived there for close to 2 million years, making it the most durable human species ever. This record is…

— Yuval Noah Harari

I feel like the oldest person in the world with the longest stretch of life before me.

— Nella Larsen

“Part of the resistance to Darwin and Wallace derives from our difficulty in imagining the passage of the millennia, much less the aeons. What…

— Carl Sagan