“After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in Russia since the fall of communism. That makes it the third most deadly country on Earth to practice journalism. That's not a record to be proud of.” IfsHas BeensCountryEarthFallPracticeRecordsProudThirdsUnionsPhotographerRussiaJournalismCommunismJournalistClockSovietReportersBe ProudSoviet UnionCameraman Author:Daniel Silva
“But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd.” EarthHeavenDoubtRecordsCrimeInnocentCurseNo Doubt Author:William Cowper
“We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration of this aphorism in the records of Somerset House.” BelieveEarthFoundHouseRecordsParticularAuthorityHighestAphorismMeek Author:F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
“There are millions of different species of animals and plants on earth--possibly as many as forty million. But somewhere between five and fifty BILLION species have existed at one time or another. Thus, only about one in a thousand species is still alive--a truly lousy survival record: 99.9 percent failure!” StillsDifferentEarthAnimalMillionsRecordsFiveAliveThousandSurvivalPercentPlantSpeciesBillionsFiftyFortyOne Time Author:David M. Raup
“Sometime in the first billion years, life appeared on the earth's surface. Slowly, the fossil record indicates, living organisms climbed the ladder from simple to more advanced forms.” YearsFirstsEarthFormSimpleRecordsSurfaceBillionsOrganismsFossilsLaddersLiving Organisms Book:White Dwarfs: Man's Descent from the Stars Source: White Dwarfs: Man's Descent from the Stars
“The record of the rocks contains very little, other than bacteria and one-celled plants until, about a billion years ago, after some three billion years of invisible progress, a major breakthrough occurred. The first many-celled creatures appeared on earth.” YearsFirstsLittlesEarthThreeRecordsProgressRocksCreaturesMajorsYears AgoPlantBillionsInvisibleBreakthroughBacteria Author:Robert Jastrow
“A knowledge of the true age of the Earth and of the fossil record makes it impossible for any balanced intellect to believe in the literal truth of every part of the Bible in the way that fundamentalists do.” WayBelieveAgeEarthRecordsImpossibleIntellectBalancedFossilsLiteral Author:Francis Crick
“For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.” MenMindEarthJusticeRecordsCallingAll ThingsAccountsAfterlifeSurveysHadesTablets Author:Aeschylus