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“If prevision be a fact, it is a fact which destroys absolutely the entire basis of all our past opinions of the universe.”

Time Universe Precognition Prevision

Book:An Experiment with Time

Source: An Experiment with Time

“What appears to be definite and precise does not belong to any acceptable reality. It is only the experiences, the queer previsions, the fleeting premonitions, that are real. Vague and insubstantial though they may appear to be, compared with anything else in the mists and shifting lights of Time theory, they loom up like mountains of iron ore.”

Reality Time Dreams Mountains Premonition Prevision

Book:Man and Time

Source: Man and Time

“Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect.”

Economics Imperfect Foresight Imperfect Things Prevision

Book:Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went

Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went

“The so-called ‘crank’ may be quite original in his ideas. … Invention, however, in the engineering sense involves originality; but not that alone, if the results are to be of value. There is imagination more or less fertile, but with it a knowledge of what has been done before, carried perhaps by the memory, together with a sense of the present or prospective needs in art or industry. Necessity is not always the mother of invention. It may be prevision.”

Ifs Needs May Has Beens Art Ideas Done Together Mother Values Imagination Memories Results Industry Originals Invention Originality Engineering Fertile Crank Prevision

Author:Elihu Thomson

“Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; no fire, no heroism, no intensity of though and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave.”

Source: Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

“Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.”

Writing Whole Subjects Sentences Composition Paragraph Revision Prevision

Author:Barrett Wendell