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But over the centuries, we have constructed on top of this objective reality a second layer of fictional reality, a reality made of fictional entities, like nations, like gods, like money, like corporations.
Banks have been solving it for centuries.
And as we've learned over the centuries, since Galileo Galilei, the Italian scientist, first turned, in that time, a two-inch, very small telescope, to the sky, every time we have built larger telescopes, we have learned something about the universe; we've made discoveries, without exception.
We're a state that's surrounded and defined by water, and yet for centuries, swamps and wetlands have been regarded as these obstacles to overcome.
First propounded by Confucius five centuries before Christ: "Do not do to others what you would not like them to do to you."
The inhabitants of Britain fought fiercely against the invaders through several centuries of turmoil.
It was used between the 12th and 15th centuries, and evolved from Old English due to increased contact with European romantic languages after the Norman Conquest of 1066.
Some have been around for centuries, like the world’s largest, Wadi al-Salaam, where more than five million people are buried.
Second, throughout the centuries and up till today, every living adult sea turtle has overcome the odds, existing as a consequence of chance, skill, and capability.
For several centuries, these tribes lived in Britain, and their Germanic language, Anglo Saxon, became the common language, what we call Old English.
So the centuries passed with Britains happily speaking Old English, but in the 700's, a series of Viking invasions began, which continued until a treaty split the island in half.
They placed a Norman king on the English throne and for three centuries, French was the language of the British royalty.
Many mathematicians over the centuries tried to prove the parallel postulate from the other four, but weren't able to do so.
It's an essential question that humans have been wondering about for centuries.
For centuries, this was central to how Europe and the Islamic world saw the universe.
And despite centuries upon centuries of obsession, it still overwhelms us.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, English uniformitarian geologists, James Hutton and Charles Lyell, studied current, very slow rates of erosion and sedimentation and realized the Earth had to be way older than the biblical guestimate, 6000 years.
For centuries, people have consumed bugs, everything from beetles to caterpillars, locusts, grasshoppers, termites, and dragonflies.
Fast moving vehicles and video recordings have only existed in the last couple of centuries, a blink in evolutionary time.
Humans have been collecting honey for centuries.
This standard 52-card deck has been used for centuries.
It's as if there has been a centuries old conspiracy amongst teachers and students to accept that heart function cannot be demonstrated.
Sadness is part of the human experience, but for centuries there has been vast disagreement over what exactly it is and what, if anything, to do about it.
Wigner pointed out that many purely mathematical theories developed in a vacuum, often with no view towards describing any physical phenomena, have proven decades or even centuries later, to be the framework necessary to explain how the universe has been working all along.
There had been centuries of contact between Europe and Africa via the Mediterranean.
African slavery had existed for centuries in various forms.
That's because Old English belongs to the Germanic language family, first brought to the British Isles in the 5th and 6th centuries by the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes.
Viking invaders in the 8th to 11th centuries added more borrowings from Old Norse into the mix.
For centuries, a shining dome has been a symbol of intelligence, but despite this, many balding people still wish their hair would return.
Indeed, today we can manufacture gold on Earth thanks to modern inventions that those medieval alchemists missed by a few centuries.
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