“The motion of the stars calculated by the Hindus before some 4500 years vary not even a single minute from the tables of Cassine and Meyer (used in the 19-th century). The Indian tables give the same annual variation of the moon as the discovered by Tycho Brahe - a variation unknown to the school of Alexandria and also to the Arabs who followed the calculations of the school ... The Hindu systems of astronomy are by far the oldest and that from which the Egyptians, Greek, Romans and - even the Jews derived from the Hindus their knowledge.” GivingYearsSchoolUsedStarsMinutesCenturyMoonTablesJewAstronomyIndianGreekVariationVaryCalculationsAnnualsAlexandria Author:Jean Sylvain Bailly
“Misha's importance and distinctiveness are beginning to be noticed, there's beginning to be some kind of rip-tide here that will soon become a wave of recognition for a book that the world is beginning to catch up to... We weren't ready before. We'd better be ready now. Because it's the 21st century, any minute now, and that means that Misha's time has come. In more ways than one.” WorldWayKindMeanBookMinutesCenturyReadyImportanceWaveRecognitionTides21st CenturyRip Author:John Shirley
“Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.” PastHistoryMinutesCenturyMountainGoldInfiniteParticlesSierraDebrisNevada Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.” HelpingLastsFightingAliveMinutesCenturyPhotographerFascinatedLast Minute Author:Berenice Abbott
“On a train from Shimla to Delhi, there was a halt in one of the stations. The train stopped by for few minutes as usual. Sachin was nearing century, batting on 98. The passengers, railway officials, everyone on the train waited for Sachin to complete the century. This Genius can stop time in India!” MinutesCenturyGeniusIndiaTrainOfficialsStationsUsualCricketHaltPassengersRailwayBattingDelhiStop Time Author:Peter Roebuck
“One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.” WayUsePowerfulTalkingMinutesCenturyLifetimeMost PowerfulPoetry IsDevicesDistortion Author:Robert Morgan
“Entertainment has seduced us into believing that we have a chance to live the life they live in the movies. Even the people in the movies don't live that life. It doesn't take 135 minutes to make a life, it takes almost a century. Everything doesn't depend on what happens in the next ninety seconds. Ever.” PeopleBelieveHappensNextChanceMinutesCenturyDependsEntertainmentLive LifeSecondsNinety Author:Seth Godin