Century Quote by Robert Cowley

What if miliseconds influence centuries?

— Robert Cowley

There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries.

— Mary Catherwood

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

— Henry David Thoreau

Two seconds are a thousand years.

— Andre Kertesz

We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open.

— Eugene O'Neill

Four hundred years is but a moment in 10,000 years. Time is curved, time is braided. Throw out your clocks.

— Howard Mansfield

If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations,…

— Abdelaziz Bouteflika

“This is the way history happens: it is measured out in days rather than epochs.”

— Charles Nicholl

“In 1792 their decimal calendar replaced the 7-day week by a 10-day week called a décade, each day of which was given a Latin…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“Anachronism is not the inconsequential juxtaposition of epochs, but rather their inter-penetration, like the telescoping legs of a tripod, a series of tapering structures.…

— Elisabeth Lenk

With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as…

— William Irwin Thompson

“Babylonian scientists used a counting system based on the number sixty, which is why minutes have sixty seconds.”

— David S. Kidder