Quotes About Chronology

We parcel up time into years and months and days because without compartmentalisation the tundra of time is impossible to navigate.

Minutes died serially into hours. Bruno

Island populations often breed strange and interesting genomes. Because Iceland is so small, with a precisely known chronology of inhabitation to the present day, we have the most comprehensive log of everyone who has ever lived there since the ninth century. There have only been thirty-five generations of Icelanders. Since the end of the era of settlement, there's been very little immigration into Iceland of note.

You can't ask questions like that. Everything has to be done in the right order, or the whole narrative falls to pieces. One thing has to follow another. You can't skip over anything or move things along faster. One step at a time.

For every minute, the future is becoming the past.

All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.

The mind is good with stories, but it does not appear to be well designed for the processing of time.

You cannot disconnect the future from the present and you cannot disconnect the present from the past. That's not how time works. Time moves in a continuous motion.

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Have you noticed how just trying to impose any sort of chronology on events makes it seem as though a lot of time has been occupied?

We should begin thinking of events as the primary realities and of time as an abstraction from them—a concept derived mainly from regular repeating events, such as the ticking of clocks. Events are perceived, but time is not (Gibson, 1975).

According to our chronology, [the creation of the world] fell upon the entrance of the night preceding the twenty third day of October in the year of the Julian Calendar, 710 [4004 b.c.e.].

We need a shape for the tale. A beginning, a middle and an end.

Persons curious in chronology may, if they like, work out from what they already know of the Wimsey family that the action of the book takes place in 1935; but if they do, they must not be querulously indignant because the King's Jubilee is not mentioned, or because I have arranged the weather and the moon's changes to suit my own fancy. For, however realistic the background, the novelist's only native country is Cloud-Cuckooland, where they do but jest, poison in jest: no offence in the world.

He instituted this, er, Chair of Chronology to see if there was any particular reason why one thing happened after another and if there was any way of stopping it. Since the answers to the three questions were, I knew immediately, yes, no, and maybe, I realized I could then take the rest of my career off.

Todo lo que ocurre, ocurre. Todo lo que al ocurrir, origina otra cosa, hace que ocurra otra cosa más. Todo lo que al ocurrir, vuelve a originarse, ocurre de nuevo. Aunque todo ello no ocurre necesariamente en orden cronológico.

To a historian that always is a difficulty. At what point in history does one particular portion of history begin

The 16th of July fell on a Monday.

How do I define history? It's just one fucking thing after another

History is just one fucking thing after another.

The days passed. Sunday turned to Monday turned to Tuesday turned to Wednesday.

Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.

For 'historical' means 'subject to time' (p. 242).

A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries.