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 mathematics only suggests."
Hilbert, David
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"The present is theirs; the future, for which I really labored, is mine."
Einstein, Albert
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"Time reveals the truth of theories that seemed certain in their moment."
Weyl, Hermann
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"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once."
Heisenberg, Werner
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"Time spent on any item of the agenda will expand to fill the time allocated to it."
Poincaré, Henri
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"Time is the stage on which all action occurs."
Poincaré, Henri
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"Time is not something external; it is woven into the fabric of existence itself."
Bohr, Niels
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"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once; space is what prevents everything from happening to us."
Weyl, Hermann
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"Time, like number, is not a finished whole but an ever-unfolding process."
Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
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"The distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"Time is a mysterious thing that we think we know all about until we stop and really consider it."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"No past event has any significance by itself. Its significance lies in the future."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"The future is only the past entered through another gate."
Poincaré, Henri
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"Time reveals what logic cannot prove."
Poincaré, Henri
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"Energy is the one thing time cannot destroy."
Wigner, Eugene
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"Every moment of life is precious; we must not waste it on trivialities."
Wigner, Eugene
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"We are all passengers on a train through time; the question is whether we observe the journey or merely sit with eyes closed."
Wigner, Eugene
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"Time is the canvas upon which the eternal plays."
Hilbert, David
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"Time in mathematics is not what it is in physics; it is eternal."
Hilbert, David
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"Time as we perceive it is but a human construction, useful yet ultimately illusory."
Weyl, Hermann
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"Time is the canvas upon which we paint our lives."
Church, Alonzo
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"Every moment offers an opportunity for growth."
Church, Alonzo
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"Time reveals truths that argument cannot."
Church, Alonzo
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"Time is the arena in which all human endeavor must unfold."
Poincaré, Henri
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"Memory is not the reproduction of the past, but its reconstruction."
Poincaré, Henri
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"Time is the medium in which all life unfolds."
Poincaré, Henri
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"The past is always emerging into the future, and consciousness emerges from this creative advance."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"Every moment contains eternity; the eternal is present in the temporal."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"Time is not a container in which events occur; it is the structure of events themselves."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"Time is not a limitation but a canvas for creation."
Church, Alonzo