It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion — George Gamow, The Creation of the Universe
It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion — George Gamow, The Creation of the Universe
It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion — George Gamow, The Creation of the Universe
It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion — George Gamow, The Creation of the Universe
It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion — George Gamow, The Creation of the Universe
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It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!

— George Gamow, The Creation of the Universe
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