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Our idea of the universe as a whole remains a product of the imagination.
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[Time is not] a mysterious illusion of the intellect... It is an essential feature of the universe.
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It must have required enormous effort for man to overcome his natural tendency to live like the animals in a continual present.
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Man must have been conscious of memories and purposes long before he made any explicit distinction between past, present, and future.
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Not until the pioneer work of Rutherford and his colleagues was the possibility of nuclear reactions and transformations as sources of stellar energy envisaged.
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Language itself inevitably introduced an element of permanence into the world. For, although speech itself is transitory, the conventionalized sound symbols of language transcended time.
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The basic objection to attempts to deduce the unidirectional nature of time from concepts such as entropy is that they are attempts to reduce a more fundamental concept to a less fundamental one.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
George Santayana
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Born:
June 9, 1912
Died:
June 2, 2000
(aged 87)
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