Heart Quote by Sydney Pollack

“Mrs. Turton says that if you lived to be eighty years old, your heart would beat three billion times. I was thinking about that,…

— Ali Benjamin

Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Where do you draw the line as a human being? Written record is only, what, a couple thousand years? And this scientific revolution is…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Since the Renaissance, a concept called 'progress' has been baked into our society. Progress - founded on an accumulation of knowledge through experience (and…

— Seth Shostak

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

“While we advance exponentially in technological capability, our spiritual or 'biological technology,' our maturity as a species, is still two or three thousand years…

— James Curcio

One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand…

— Clifford Geertz

We've been co-evolving with our technology for a hundred thousand years. Human beings and the technology we make were always inseparable. We're finally coming…

— Daniel H. Wilson

Although humans have existed on this planet for perhaps 2 million years, the rapid climb to modern civilization within the last 200 years was…

— Michio Kaku

It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible…

— George Bernard Shaw

In this century we have made remarkable material progress, but basically we are the same as we were thousands of years ago. Our spiritual…

— Dalai Lama