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