Years ago Quote by Stephen Oppenheimer

“Thus human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of a kind that could not have happened in the past nor…

— Bill McKibben

“Basically, dating is like climbing a volcano and you never know when it’s going to erupt, dumping molten lava and burning you”

— Robin Bielman

“Belief that the Earth is only several thousands years old carries a curious implication. The physical evidence for the Earth's age emerged from the…

— Eric Roston

“I am convinced that human history has not yet begun, that we find ourselves in the last period of the prehistoric.”

— Bartolomeo Vanzetti

“Our lives are small temporally as well as spatially: if this 14-billion-year cosmic history were scaled to one year, then 100,000 years of human…

— Max Tegmark

“If you could forget mortality... You could really believe that time is circular, and not linear and progressive as our culture is bent on…

— Wallace Stegner

“THE GREATEST MYSTERY OF ALL TIME… THE HISTORY OF HUMAN ORIGINS… WILL BE REVEALED. 70,000 years ago, the human race almost went extinct. We…

— A.G. Riddle

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

“The hypothetical aquatic phase of the ancestral apes during the fossil gap would have been brief, a matter of two or three million years.”

— Elaine Morgan

“Play that cosmic tape backward, and everything converges down to a point about 13.7 billion years ago. That’s the Big Bang. The light from…

— Robert M. Hazen

Man has survived and prospered for more than 150,000 years on this planet without the help of use-by dates.

— Clarissa Dickson Wright

“The truth is that from about 2 million years ago until around 10,000 years ago, the world was home, at one and the same…

— Yuval Noah Harari