Human Time Quotes

9 quotes by 9 authors

• The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures. — Charles Babbage
• Experiments in geology are far more difficult than in physics and chemistry because of the greater size of the objects, commonly outside our laboratories, up… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
• What can the redwoods tell us about ourselves? Well, I think they can tell us something about human time. The flickering, transitory quality of human… — Richard Preston
• Returning from the wilderness a man becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true heir, honors his forbears and… — Wendell Berry
• If you free yourself from the conventional reaction to a quantity like a million years, you free yourself a bit from the boundaries of human… — John McPhee
• And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is… — Milan Kundera
• Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every… — Yasunari Kawabata
• She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could situate… — Ruth Ozeki
• One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish… — Robert Morgan

Who Wrote These Human Time Quotes

9 authors contributed a total of 9 Human Time Quotes as follows:

• 1 Human Time Quote by Charles Babbage
• 1 Human Time Quote by Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
• 1 Human Time Quote by Richard Preston
• 1 Human Time Quote by Wendell Berry
• 1 Human Time Quote by John McPhee
• 1 Human Time Quote by Milan Kundera
• 1 Human Time Quote by Yasunari Kawabata
• 1 Human Time Quote by Ruth Ozeki
• 1 Human Time Quote by Robert Morgan