Quotes About Time

like everything that was worth doing, that would take time and practice.

Minkowski spacetime.

Only Time is universal; Night and Day are merely quaint local customs found on those planets that tidal forces have not yet robbed of their rotation. But however far they travel from their native world, human beings can never escape the diurnal rhythm, set ages ago by its cycle of light and darkness.

Now that they were no longer half-numbed with starvation, they had time both for leisure and for the first rudiments of thought.

On the placidly flowing river of time, he wished only to make a few ripples: he shrank from diverting its course.

Whatever their origin, the human race was fortunate to have seen such a wonder; it could exist for only a brief moment of time in the history of the Solar System.

Unlike the animals, who knew only the present, Man had acquired a past; and he was beginning to grope toward a future. He

Evolution and science had come to the same answers; and the work of Nature had lasted longer. At

If the present is shitty and the future is worse, the past is all you've got

Fifty years is ample time in which to change a world and its people almost beyond recognition. All that is required for the task are a sound knowledge of social engineering, a clear sight of the intended goal—and power.

It seemed unfair that this should have happened in his time, after all these centuries of rest. But men cannot bargain with Fate, and choose peace or adventure as they wish.

I am the biggest anachronism on Planet Earth.

Yaln?zca zaman?n derman olabileceÄŸi baz? ÅŸeyler vard? hayatta. Kötüler yok edilebilirdi, ancak akl? kar??m?? iyi birine hiçbir ÅŸey yap?lamazd?.

With no further clues, it might take the station Computer quite a while—perhaps as much as ten minutes—to locate the line in the whole body of English literature.

Three million years! The infinitely crowded panorama of written history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered barely one thousandth of this appalling span of time.

No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time.

He felt that strange mingling of kinship and discomfort that all men experience when they gaze thus into the mirror of time.

The timeless instant passed.

The planet had been slowed down - but as its mass was a sextillion times greater than the ship's, the change in its orbit was far too small to be detectable. The time had not yet come when Man could leave his mark upon the Solar System.

One by one she would cut through the orbits of Janus, Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion... worlds bearing the names of gods and goddesses who had vanished only yesterday, as time was counted here.

Behind Alystra was the known world, full of wonder yet empty of surprise, drifting like a brilliant but tightly closed bubble down the river of time. Ahead, separated from her by no more than the span of a few footsteps, was the empty wilderness—the world of the desert—the world of the Invaders. Alvin

Did you know that the average viewing time per person is now three hours a day? Soon people won't be living their own lives any more. It will be a full-time job keeping up with the various family serials on TV!

Einsteinian time dilation.

Unlike the animals, who knew only the present, Man had acquired a past; and he was beginning to grope towards a future.