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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
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I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope…
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The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by…
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The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.
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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius…
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The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance,…
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It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he…
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To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed,…
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The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.
— Charles Babbage
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Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all…
— Yasunari Kawabata
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Experiments in geology are far more difficult than in physics and chemistry because of the greater size of the objects, commonly outside…
— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
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What can the redwoods tell us about ourselves? Well, I think they can tell us something about human time. The flickering, transitory…
— Richard Preston
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Returning from the wilderness a man becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true heir, honors…
— Wendell Berry
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If you free yourself from the conventional reaction to a quantity like a million years, you free yourself a bit from the…
— John McPhee
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And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight…
— Milan Kundera
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She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that…
— Ruth Ozeki
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