François Arago (1786–1853) French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician
Joseph Fourier, p. 411.
Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men (1859)
This is Your Brain on Music (2006)
François Arago (1786–1853) French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician
Joseph Fourier, p. 411.
Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men (1859)
P. D. Ouspensky (1878–1947) Russian esotericist
A New Model of the Universe (1932)
Context: There exist moments in life, separated by long intervals of time, but linked together by their inner content and by a certain singular sensation peculiar to them. Several such moments always recur to my mind together, and I feel then that it is these that have determined the chief trend of my life.
“Tactility is space of the interval.”
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
1970s, Culture Is Our Business (1970)
Ray Kurzweil (1948) Author, scientist, inventor, and futurist
The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (1999)
Henry Gee (1962) British paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and editor
In Search of Deep Time—Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life, by Henry Gee, 1999, p. 23.
“Lucid intervals and happy pauses.”
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
History of King Henry VII, III (1622)
Eleftherios Venizelos (1864–1936) Greek politician
[Bagger, E. S., Eminent Europeans; studies in continental reality, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922, http://www.archive.org/download/eminenteuropeans00bagg/eminenteuropeans00bagg.pdf], p. 61
“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
"War Shrines"
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)
“The so-called "peace" is an interval between wars.”
Lu Xun (1881–1936) Chinese novelist and essayist
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"The Epigrams of Lusin"
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
Letter http://www.eapoe.org/works/letters/p4801040.htm to George W. Eveleth, Jan. 4, 1848.