Standard Time Zone

Famous quotes containing the words standard, time and/or zone:

“As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice—there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community. To discover how scientific revolutions are effected, we shall therefore have to examine not only the impact of nature and of logic, but also the techniques of persuasive argumentation effective within the quite special groups that constitute the community of scientists.”
—Thomas S. Kuhn (b. 1922)

“There is something even in the lapse of time by which time recovers itself.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)