− | A time (’êth) to give birth, and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to uproot what is planted. | + | A time to give birth, and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to uproot what is planted. |
| A time to kill, and a time to heal; A time to tear down, and a time to build up. | | A time to kill, and a time to heal; A time to tear down, and a time to build up. |
| In Book 11 of [[St. Augustine of Hippo|St. Augustine's]] [[Confessions]], he ruminates on the nature of time, asking, "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know: if I wish to explain | | In Book 11 of [[St. Augustine of Hippo|St. Augustine's]] [[Confessions]], he ruminates on the nature of time, asking, "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know: if I wish to explain |
− | it to one that asketh, I know not." He settles on time being defined more by what it is not than what it is.<ref>St.,Augustine, ''Confessions'', Book 11. [http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/augustine/Pusey/book11]. [[Isaac Newton|Newton]] believed time and [[space]] form a [[container]] for [[event]]s, which is as [[real]] as the [[object]]s it contains. | + | it to one that asketh, I know not." He settles on time being defined more by what it is not than what it is. St.,Augustine, ''Confessions'', Book 11. [http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/augustine/Pusey/book11]. [[Isaac Newton|Newton]] believed time and [[space]] form a [[container]] for [[event]]s, which is as [[real]] as the [[object]]s it contains. |
| "Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and by another name is called duration. Relative, apparent, and common time is any sensible and external measure (precise or imprecise) of duration by means of motion; such a measure—for example, an hour, a day, a month, a year—is commonly used instead of true time.|''Principia'', Isaac Newton Translated by I. Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1999. | | "Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and by another name is called duration. Relative, apparent, and common time is any sensible and external measure (precise or imprecise) of duration by means of motion; such a measure—for example, an hour, a day, a month, a year—is commonly used instead of true time.|''Principia'', Isaac Newton Translated by I. Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1999. |