 | Richard John Borg, George Julian Dienes - Science - 1992 - 636 pages
...Deposition 419 Exercises ..................... ...„.„.....„... 419 Additional Reading .421 ... 405 Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given...useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. — Alfonso the Wise. King of Casnlc (circa 1260) The Chemistry of Interfaces A surface exposed to... | |
 | J. Anton Zensus, Timothy J. Pearson - Science - 1990 - 746 pages
...an explanation of astronomy according to Ptolemy, King Alfonso X the Wise is said to have replied, "Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for a better ordering of the Universe". While we may agree with his assessment of epicycles, perhaps we... | |
 | Peter Bock - Technology & Engineering - 1993 - 356 pages
...Reason Precision Backward Context Skill Resources Forward Context Chapter 4 The Little Universe Game Had I been present at the creation, I would have given...useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. ALPHONSO THE WISE The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules... | |
 | John W. Gardner, Francesca Gardner Reese - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 278 pages
...and the white man had the Bible. Then we had the Bible and the white man had the land. African saying Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given...useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. Alfonso the Learned Most people really believe that the Christian commandments (eg, love one's neighbor... | |
 | Michael H. Cosgrove - Political Science - 366 pages
...Alphonso X, King of Spain, for use of the idea of the creation: "If he had been present at the creation he would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. In a sense the postwar years were a period of creation, for the ordering of which I shared with others... | |
 | Geoffrey Edwards, Alfred Pijpers - Political Science - 1997 - 376 pages
...Acheson could record the creation of the Atlantic alliance with the words of Alphonso X the Learned, that 'had I been present at the creation I would have given...useful hints for the better ordering of the universe'. Another such period was in the early years of the Fifth Republic, when de Gaulle preempted his nightmare... | |
 | Timothy J. Smith - Health & Fitness - 1999 - 708 pages
...cut back your dose. TROUBLE-FREE TIME TRAVEL The Spanish king Alfonso the Wise (1221-84) once said, "Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some helpful hints." Now I don't know what he may have had in mind. But I'd cast my vote for a body better... | |
 | Charles George Walker - 2000 - 203 pages
...Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco. Emile Zola Had I been present at the creation, I would have given...useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. King Alfonso X of Spain (1252-1284) A self-made man? Yes — and worships his creator. William Cowper... | |
 | Ken Croswell - Science - 2002 - 353 pages
...that predicted enormous quantities of dark matter, all of it exotic. EIGHT UNIVERSE IN HYPE RDRIVE Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given...useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. — ALFONSO THE WISE LATE one night in 1979, a peripatetic postdoc pulled out a piece of paper and... | |
 | Robin Broad - Business & Economics - 2002 - 374 pages
...begins his book with an epithet from a thirteenth-century king of Spain that is equally fitting today: "Had I been present at the creation, I would have...useful hints for the better ordering of the universe." That better ordering is the subject of the rest of the present book, as we turn to initiatives by the... | |
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Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. 
