Time Quotes

We all get the same 24 hours. These quotes explore what we do with them and why it matters.

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"Time reveals what effort conceals."
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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"Age makes no sense whatsoever. It can teach you nothing but sadness."
Thomas Henry Huxley
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"Life is too short to waste upon the cultivation of people whose sole recommendation is their rank."
Thomas Henry Huxley
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"Time is the great revealer of truth."
Georges Cuvier
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"The past is never truly past; it lives in every present moment."
Georges Cuvier
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"Time leaves its marks upon all living things."
Georges Cuvier
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"The past instructs the future through the present."
Georges Cuvier
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"In the extinction of creatures, we see the will of time itself."
Georges Cuvier
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"Each fossil awakens us to the vastness of time."
Georges Cuvier
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"The past, though gone, speaks loudly to the present."
Georges Cuvier
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"Nature's patience exceeds human understanding; evolution works in geological time."
Hugo de Vries
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"Time is the greatest judge of truth and falsehood."
Alfred Russel Wallace
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"Every moment in time is precious and irretrievable once it passes."
Alfred Russel Wallace
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"Time is the great revealier of nature's secrets."
August Weismann
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"Every living thing is a testimony to millions of years of refinement."
August Weismann
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"Heredity is the bridge between past organisms and future ones."
August Weismann
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"The germ-plasm is the only true continuum in the history of life."
August Weismann
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"Nature's experiments are conducted on a scale of geological time."
August Weismann
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"Life's history is written in the variations among organisms."
August Weismann
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"The present world is the work of inconceivable antiquity."
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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"Time is the medium in which all life unfolds."
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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"Evolution proceeds imperceptibly across vast stretches of time."
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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"The present is the offspring of an infinite past."
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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"The past is not dead; it lives in every creature that walks the earth."
Richard Owen
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"The study of fossils connects us to the great sweep of time."
Richard Owen
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"A lifetime of study barely scratches nature's surface."
Carolus Linnaeus
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"Each species carries within it the memory of millions of years."
Georges Cuvier
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"The past is never truly past; it lives in every living thing."
Georges Cuvier
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"Every creature bears within it the mark of ages and the promise of ages yet unborn."
Georges Cuvier
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"The mutations that seem insignificant today may shape the destiny of tomorrow's species."
Hugo de Vries