Capacity Quote by Thomas Harriot

“The clocks understood, they kept moving, motion, following the truth that change is the nature of God's mind, and resistance to it is the…

— Craig Ferguson

“Humankind invented clocks to define eternity just as humankind invented religion to define God.”

— Suki Michelle

And blessed are they who have learned the rhythms of the invisible clock whose hours and minutes are immense and soundless. The great clock…

— Josephine Winslow Johnson

“But even they it was as though the time that the clock measured was not put to any use. For by far the majority…

— Peter Høeg

“Experience day by day protested and showed by infinite examples, that good and evil fortunes fall to the lot of pious and impious alike;…

— Baruch Spinoza

“In Paley's famous illustration, the adaptation of all the parts of the watch to the function, or purpose, of showing the time, is held…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

Moment to moment, it turns out, is not God's conception, or nature's. It is man conversing with himself about and through a piece of…

— Lewis Mumford

We were raised to believe in books, music, and nature.

— Anne Lamott

Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the…

— Eric Kandel

In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy.

— Nicholas of Cusa

People used to think that biological clocks were not only mysterious, they were seen almost as miracles. This is no longer the case.

— Jeffrey C. Hall

For a long time the objects that mathematicians dealt with were mostly ill-defined; one believed one knew them, but one represented them with the…

— Henri Poincare