Quotes About Chronology

From that historically brief quite opaque moment, came the chaos of our material history, an anarchy of chronology, of mismatched remnants that delighted and horrified investigators.

Archaeologists often distinguish calibrated from uncalibrated dates by writing the former in upper-case letters and the latter in lower-case letters (for example, 3000 B.C. vs. 3000 B.C., respectively).

History is just one damn fact after another

The almost timeless curvature of the space of ideas obeys neither chronology nor history. So the thoughts of Sade and Fourier are like anticipated repercussions of the theories of Marx and Freud, of which they are a much more radical critique avant la lettre than any that were to follow, exerting their effects only posthumously. To reread the world of ideas against the grain of the ideology of the Enlightenment, the ideology of a chronological order of events.

Today was tomorrow and yesterday was today.

Time is that quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.

Time is that quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working. —Anonymous

The Late Bronze Age in the southern parts of Britain, according to most authorities, began about 1000 B.C. and lasted until about 400 B.C.

The gospels were, in fact, written anywhere from forty to a hundred years after Jesus, and their authors attempted to demonstrate that Jesus could be seen to fulfill various Old Testament pronouncements.

My chronology is terrible. [Work with William Shawn] must have some ago. It was after he was fired by Newhouse. After New - when Newhouse bought The New Yorker, he said in one of those grand press

Time is the source of all things

Life is a totality of time

Everything is derived from time

It is impossible to pause, stop or delay time

Human existence is as a result of the evolution of time

Life cannot be in existence without time

We are products of time

We were created from time

Life is the totality of time

Time is the chronological breakdown of life

Life is made up of time

The most understandable thing in the world should be how minutes lead to hours, how hours lead to days, how days can make a year. And yet, this neat progression can still be surprising.

I love the vagueness of words that involve time.

Only a matter of timing.