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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.

— Gerald James Whitrow Time in History: Views of Time from Prehistory to the Present Day (1988)

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Perhaps the first to approach the fourth dimension from the side of physics, was the Frenchman, Nicole Oresme, of the fourteenth century.

He uses the phrase "fourth dimension" (4am dimensionem).

The absence of free mobility in time makes it much more difficult for us to be sure that a process takes the same time whenever it is repeated.

Natural Philosophy of Time (1980)

Man must have been conscious of memories and purposes long before he made any explicit distinction between past, present, and future.

Time in History: Views of Time from Prehistory to the Present Day (1988)

Cosmology is peculiar among the sciences for it is both the oldest and the youngest.

Theories of the Universe (1958)

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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You can never plan the future by the past.

Edmund Burke A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791)

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.

Abraham Cowley Poems (1656)

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