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The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks of the period…

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Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians…
There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever instead. No…
Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, the…
If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said…
Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions…
Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon…
Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one,
I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know that it…
Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.
While science has nothing of value to say on the great and aching questions of life, death, love and meaning, what the…
Validity is the touchstone of inference, and truth of judgment: the fact that vichyssoise is cold ratifies the judgment that vichyssoise is,…
The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks…

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A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other… — Emily Bronte
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
The Greeks had two words for time. Chronos is the time we usually keep an eye on. Kairos was our participation of… — Jean Shinoda Bolen
We never really see time. We see only clocks. If you say this object moves, what you really mean is that this… — Carlo Rovelli
Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations. — Cyril Connolly
Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them… — William Penn
Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time. — Henry Ward Beecher
The wounds were burning like suns at five in the afternoon, and the crowd broke the windows At five in the afternoon.… — Federico Garcia Lorca
We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate… — John Zerzan
The future is fastidious and punctual. It keeps perfect time and arrives everywhere on the dot. In contrast, its slacker brother the… — Jonathan Carroll
Time is that which is manufactured by clocks. — Hermann Bondi

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