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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.

— 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).

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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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.

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