“The development of rational thought actually seems to have impeded man's appreciation for the significance of time.”

— Gerald James Whitrow

Time in History: Views of Time from Prehistory to the Present Day (1988)
Context: The development of rational thought actually seems to have impeded man's appreciation for the significance of time.... Belief that the ultimate reality is timeless is deeply rooted in human thinking, and the origin of rational investigation of the world was the search for permanent factors that lie behind the ever-changing pattern of events.<!--p.22

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British mathematician 1912–2000

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