“...carved marble figures in strata that "suggests the characters were made by intelligent humans from the distant past,"a section of gold thread found in strata between 320 and 360 million years old,a report in a nineteenth-century edition of Scientific American recording the discovery of a metallic vase in strata 600 million years old,a chalk ball in France in strata 45-55 million years old,a machined coin with undecipherable writing at least 200,000 years old, discovered in Illinois,a clay figurine discovered in Idaho that is atleast two million years old.The list of suppressed and conveniently forgotten discoveries goes on and on,”

“Yes, I am of old family, and not illiterate. I am a fossil."   "A which?"   "Fossil. The first horses were fossils. They date back two million years.”

“The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.”

“It pains me even now, even a million years later, to write about such human misbehaviour.A million years later, I feel like apologizing for the human race. That’s all I can say.”

“Molecular evidense suggests that our common ancestor with the chimpanzees lived, in Africa, between 5 and 7 million years ago, say half a million generations ago. This is not long by evolutionary standards.”

“About 3 million pounds of antibiotics are given to humans each year, but a whopping 17.8 million pounds are fed to livestock.”