“...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,”

“The frog is almost five hundred million years old. Could you really say with much certainty that America, with all its strength and prosperity, with its fighting man that is second to none, and with its standard of living that is highest in the world, will last as long as...the frog? ”

“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.”

“From a long view of the history of mankind, seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the 19th century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics. The American Civil War will pale into provincial insignificance in comparison with this important scientific event of the same decade.”

“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.”