Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years? Clifford D. Simak
Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them. Arthur Schopenhauer
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy. Robert Smithson
How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen. Mel Torme
If people could only be persuaded to live according to the healthy principles laid down by Metchnikoff, he called it orthobiosis (right living), their life span would be dramatically increased.
Pioneers of microbiology. Page 136.
In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.
Martha Beck
In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it. Martha Beck
In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living. Luther Burbank
In the span of three years, the Iraqi people participated in three elections, drafted a constitution, and elected a new government. While more work remains, this is remarkable progress. Tim Murphy
It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle. Albert Claude
It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it. Jeremy Northam
Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe. John Polkinghorne
