Quotes About Continuity

To make this condition mathematically clearer, it is convenient to assert it in the form that the space-time can be continued smoothly, as a conformal manifold, a little way prior to the hypersurface . To before the Big Bang? Surely not: the Big Bang is supposed to represent the beginning of all things, so there can be no 'before'. Never fear—this is just a mathematical trick. The extension is not supposed to have any physical meaning! Or might it Ã¢â'¬Â¦?

If the past is to be called upon to legitimize the present, as it so frequently is, then the veracity of such a past has to be continuously vetted.

The Guardians perceived cycles, not finality.

Yes, we are sure of it. These walls enclose a world. Here is continuity spinning a web from room to room, from year to year. It is safe in this house.

Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way which you always used.

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.

Long time lines trail behind every idea, object, person, pet, vehicle, and event.

All crimes," she remembered him advising, "are crimes against continuity—continuity of life, continuity of ownership, systems continuity.

We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is our own. We begin in the world as anagrams of our antecedents.

time runs only one way.

If you stumble, you get back up. If you fall off the wagon, you have the next go at it. And then the next. And the next. And the next.

The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded of the viewer? He is asked to 'see' the future links.

We are all Judas. Even eighty generations later we are still Judas.

as the Age of Bush gave way to the Era of Obama, little of substance changed. That was the greatest irony of all.

You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It`s you who makes me a person.

There is no stable self that is carried along from one moment to the next.

History tells us that some things never change. One of these things is: history bores a lot of people.

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

The river / We cannot cross / Flows forever

Lo soñado se confunde con lo pensado. La realidad y la irrealidad se vuelven continuas.

The past did affect the present and the future, in ways you could see and a million ones you couldn't. Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me.

If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future.It's all linked together.

If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together. You see what I'm saying?" At

Saint Augustine said that the New Testament is concealed in the Old, and the Old is revealed in the New.