Quotes About Time

Light is the only connection we have with the Universe beyond our solar system, and the only connection our ancestors had with anything beyond Earth. Follow the light and we can journey from the confines of our planet to other worlds that orbit the Sun without ever dreaming of spacecraft. To look up is to look back in time, because the ancient beams of light are messengers from the Universe's distant past.

The ultimate paradox, of course, is that even though we're all going to die, we've all got to live in the meantime…

You have to get old because of the geometry of spacetime.

They would certainly have been simpler than the earliest known microbial mats, but somewhere in your genome there will be sequences of DNA that have been faithfully passed down across the great sweep of geological time, and if you have children, you'll pass these four-billion-year-old messages on to them.

What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.

All things cyclical sustain hope. All things cyclical imply futility.

Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.

More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.

You talk to me as if from a distance And I reply with impressions chosen from another time.

The strangeness of that: the feeling that you, or rather I, are at once dreaming and remembering and simultaneously doing something as if for the first time. That

Life is fleeting, constantly spiralling into the past. And all we're ever able to hold on to is the precious present.

In other words, reality happens once, but memory happens over and over

You see, there are moments in your life you are desperate to take back as soon as they happen, but the clock ticks, and they're gone. You make your choice, and an instant later, nothing is the same.

to arouse suspicion over time. So far, surprisingly

No matter how long the sun may linger on his long and weary journey, at length evening comes with its sacred song.

Living is something most of us postpone, isn't it? We sell the present for a chance at a future where we may do our living when we're old and we've lost the talent for it.

While you were in Tartarus, up here on earth one hundred years have passed." Noah became dizzy as the reality hit him in the gut. "One hundred years?" He could not believe it. His breath shortened. He could feel his heart pounding in his chest. He wanted to run, but there was nowhere to go. "Yes," said Uriel. "The world has worsened. Every intent of the thought of man's heart is continually evil.

Einstein comes along and says, space and time can warp and curve, that's what gravity is. Now string theory comes along and says, yes, gravity, quantum mechanics, electromagnetism — all together in one package, but only if the universe has more dimensions than the ones that we see.

But, as Einstein once said, "For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent."5

Gravity is matter's sugar daddy.

For string theory to make sense, the universe should have nine spacial dimensions and one time dimension, for a total of ten dimensions.

A watch worn by a particle of light would not tick at all. Light realizes the dreams of Ponce de Leon and the cosmetics industry: it doesn't age.

The world of the everyday suddenly seemed nothing but an inverted magic act, lulling its audience into believing in the usual, familiar conceptions of space and time, while the astonishing truth of quantum reality lay carefully guarded by nature's sleights of hand.