Temporally, it requires that we imagine ourselves inhabitants not
just of a human lifetime or generation, but also of «deep time» — the dizzyingly profound eras of Earth history that extend both behind and ahead of the present.
Not exact matches
It really was
just yesterday that the Wright Brothers flew the first airplane
just after 1900, then within a single person's
lifetime,
human beings were able to step on the face
of the moon.
For them microevolution is the change we have observed over
just the short span
of a
human lifetime or within a few centuries.
I am
just amazed at the corruption
of human character that I have witnessed only in my own short
lifetime....
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Just what's on the near - Earth asteroids can support the rest
of human civilization for the
lifetime of the sun.
Humanity's knowledge
of how the cosmos was born and how its many phenomena arise has grown exponentially in a period
of time equivalent to
just one
human lifetime.
The
human brain,
just a 3 - pound mass
of tissue, has the ability to remember a
lifetime of experiences.
What this is doing is it's freeing up a little bit
of time for me to finish the new book, and it's also making sure that you've seen the most important, most impactful, most useful content because I believe really deeply with Bulletproof Radio that given that we're pushing 50 million downloads, the number
of hours that are consumed
just listening to Bulletproof Radio is more than 100
human lifetimes.
Just the day before, she had told me that most
human beings only saw a hundred - thousandth
of the world in their
lifetime.
Renowned for his technical experimentation, Degas (French, 1834 — 1917) exhibited
just one sculpture during his
lifetime, the controversial Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen, which startled visitors to the 1881 Impressionist exhibition with its unidealized physiognomy and radical use
of real materials such as silk slippers and a wig made from
human hair.
In Von Heyl's work, a single painting can contain the history
of painting,
just as each
human being retains various selves over the course
of lifetime.