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- 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… — 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… — Richard Preston
- Returning from the wilderness a man becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true heir, honors… — Wendell Berry
- If you free yourself from the conventional reaction to a quantity like a million years, you free yourself a bit from the… — 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… — Milan Kundera
- Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all… — Yasunari Kawabata
- She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that… — Ruth Ozeki