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Quotes About Chronology

In conclusion, rapid space travel and travel back in time can't be ruled out according to our present understanding. They would cause great logical problems, so let's hope there's a Chronology Protection Law to prevent people going back and killing their parents.
~ Stephen Hawking
Time-travelers lie a lot.
~ Stephen King
measuring duration of time.
~ Jonathan Peters
Unfortunately, identifying Ramses II as the pharaoh of the Exodus, which is the identification most frequently found in both scholarly and popular books, does not work if one also wishes to follow the chronology presented in the Bible.
~ Eric H. Cline
It's easier for me to remember things based on the releases of albums. The year is such an arbitrary thing.
~ Rostam Batmanglij
Most importantly, if we approach the passage with the assumption that the author was concerned with chronology, we miss the profound thematic point the author is making throughout this passage, namely, that God brings order out of chaos. 4.
~ Gregory A. Boyd
The literary framework view not only avoids this problem but actually explains it. The order of the days is not meant to reflect the chronology of creation. It is rather meant to express thematically the problems of darkness, watery abyss, formlessness, and void expressed in Genesis 1:2. 4.
~ Gregory A. Boyd
From the building of the temple of Solomon, which is also treated as a leading epoch in chronology, a new period in the history of worship is accordingly dated, - and to a certain extent with justice.
~ Julius Wellhausen
Day is just a collection of hours.
~ Serj Tankian
Time is the backdrop of our lives and the very fabric of the cosmos.
~ Philip Zimbardo
Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element. Time is itself an element.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
~ Dr. Seuss
There are 31.536.000 seconds in a year. I am counting down every second.
~ Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
Time runs independently of us, and we cannot comprehend the flow of time. Time is a category in itself.
~ Eraldo Banovac
One thing you cannot avoid ever in life, and that is time.
~ Sandeep Sahajpal
Everything has its own time
~ Sunday Adelaja
Clocks were invented to warn us. Tick (time is passing). Tock (time has passed).
~ Kamand Kojouri
Nothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule.
~ Dean Koontz, Forever Odd
Unlike clocks, hours have no reverse motion..
~ Anonymous
As a matter of fact life itself is measured by time.
~ Sunday Adelaja
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
~ John Archibald Wheeler
The very first surviving account of Jesus's life was written thirty-five to forty years after his death. Our latest canonical Gospel was written sixty to sixty-five years after his death. That's obviously a lot of time.
~ Bart D. Ehrman
You have to jump around in time to get the facts right. Linear chronology makes for good popular storytelling, but it doesn't always capture the deep causes that drive history. Some causes are proximate, in the moment. Some are echoes of distant shock waves, still reverberating a hundred—or a thousand—years later.
~ Steven Johnson
Time is nature's way to keep everything from happening at once. Space is nature's way to keep everything from happening to me.
~ Steven Pinker