Quotes About Time

It has cost them but a moment to cut off that head; but a hundred years will not be sufficient to produce another like it.

As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.

People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width of North America is 8 yards. That is the scale of the error.

Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.

The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.

The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

The time has come when advertising has in some hands reached the status of a science.

A busy life is a wasted life.

How do you know that the incessant progress of science will not compel scientists to consider that life has existed during eternity, and not matter?

Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless space.

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.

It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly.

It is said to await certainty is to await eternity.

There is no future. There is only now, a continuous now. We have become so wrapped up in the past and the future that we don't see the continuous now. There is no future. It is an idea that you have.

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.

I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.

I think it's reasonable to suppose that one could oscillate between being biologically 20 and biologically 25 indefinitely.

Then we'll work a hundred years without physics and chemistry.

For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yer to yere; And out of olde bokis, in good fey, Comyth al this newe science that men lere.

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

The total number of people who understand relativistic time, even after eighty years since the advent of special relativity, is still much smaller than the number of people who believe in horoscopes.