Billions Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

Consider: Life arose on Earth close to four billion years ago. Four billion years of slithering, swimming, and soaring life forms. But only in…

— Seth Shostak

People say life begins at conception, I say life began about a billion years ago and it's a continuous process.

— George Carlin

The critical first billion years, during which life began, are blank pages in the earth's history.

— Robert Jastrow

...A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“All at once he found his mind drawing a parallel between that destiny and his own existence; all at once questions of life arose…

— Ivan Goncharov

There are only two possible explanations as to how life arose: Spontaneous generation arising to evolution or a supernatural creative act of God… There…

— George Wald

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of…

— Rachel Carson

When it comes to the origin of life there are only two possibilities: creation or spontaneous generation. There is no third way. Spontaneous generation…

— George Wald

The discovery and investigation of life on other planets is likely to change many of our ideas about how life arose on the Earth…

— George Smoot

Whether Earth was deliberately terraformed, in other words, or whether it was seeded with the spores of life from crashed comets or whether, indeed,…

— Graham Hancock

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

If we are still here to witness the destruction of our planet some five billion years or more hence, then we will have achieved…

— Stephen Jay Gould