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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"Only the present moment is real; the past and future are ideas."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"What one generation takes for granted, another must reestablish."
Kuhn, Thomas
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"What appears to be revolutionary may later seem inevitable."
Kuhn, Thomas
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"The history of science reveals patterns of stability and sudden change."
Kuhn, Thomas
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"Your present moment is where all infinite pasts converge into all possible futures."
Everett, Hugh
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"Time is not what we think it is; it is a fundamental aspect of existence."
Bohm, David
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"Time is not a container in which things happen; it is how wholeness unfolds."
Bohm, David
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"In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the dunce."
Heisenberg, Werner
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"The distinction between the past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
Heisenberg, Werner
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"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished—a truth the physicist must embrace."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"Time is not a river flowing from past to future; it is a dimension woven into the fabric of reality."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"We are all to some extent slaves of the prejudices of our time."
Bohr, Niels
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"Time is not absolute; it is relative to the observer."
Bohr, Niels
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"The ratio of time you spend reading about something to time you spend reading the actual thing is usually about 10 to 1."
Feynman, Richard
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"There is a time to think and a time to act."
Feynman, Richard
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"The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
Einstein, Albert
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"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."
Wigner, Eugene
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"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."
Bohr, Niels
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"Time is a dimension like the others."
Dirac, Paul
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"It took mankind two thousand years to understand that space and time are connected."
Dirac, Paul
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"The future is unpredictable, but the past is fixed and determined."
Dirac, Paul
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"Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as we are living it."
Einstein, Albert
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"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
Einstein, Albert
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"The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine."
Einstein, Albert
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"Time is not absolute; it is woven into the fabric of spacetime itself."
Weyl, Hermann
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"A great deal of time and effort is wasted on insoluble problems."
Wigner, Eugene
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"The universe is eternally young because it is eternally in the future."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"Youth is wasted on the young because they do not yet understand the magnitude of life."
Bohr, Niels
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"Time spent in mathematical contemplation enriches the soul."
Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
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"Time invested in learning mathematics yields eternal returns."
Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan