Chronology Quotes

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History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we… — Thomas Kuhn
Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay two marks, the… — M. King Hubbert
The only way we can determine the true age of the earth is for God to tell us what it is. And since He has… — Henry M. Morris
No apparent, perceived, or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record, — Ken Ham
Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity suggests layers of… — W G Sebald
A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the… — Peter Medawar
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology. — James A. Garfield
Bryce Zabel and I went down the road of revising the Kennedy historical record together on the NBC seriesDark Skies. This time instead of giving… — Melissa Rosenberg
We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The… — Max Lerner
There just isnâ€™t a weak season of 'Breaking Bad.' Thereâ€™s just superior work, a sprint toward evil that turned into a marathon. But like all… — Hank Stuever
Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected the punctuation, the… — Virginia Woolf
The rocks. They carry the chronology of water. All things simultaneously living and dead in your hands. — Lidia Yuknavitch
Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience, if we would… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away in its tunnels,… — Nicholson Baker
There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we… — Barbara Amiel
'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes. — Hilary Mantel
I write in longhand and assemble lots of notes, and then I try to collate them into a coherent chronology. It's like groping along in… — Joyce Carol Oates
I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot… — Andre Gide
Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real. — Madeleine L'Engle
Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mature adult love and maybe more,… — Tim O'Brien

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