Kip Thorne - II Kings 20:11 - Michael Ellner - Red Dwarf TV - Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! 2006 - Lewis Carroll - The Matrix 1999 - Winston Churchill - Arthur Miller - Soren Kierkegaard - Sugar Ray Leonard - Aldous Huxley - Carl Sagan TV - Trailer Park Boys: Out of the Park Europe 2016 - Star Trek TV -
If backward time is possible, what does Nature do about the so-called Grandfather Paradox? Professor Kip Thorne
And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the Lord: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz. II Kings 20:11
Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and the religions destroy spirituality. Michael Ellner
It’s Earth all right, only Earth where time is going backwards. Red Dwarf s3e1: Backwards, BBC 1989
We’d better get a job. But what jobs are there in a backwards reality for a dead hologram and an android with a head shaped like a novelty condom? ibid. Rimmer to Kryten
India’s Samir Tandon can sing songs, read newspapers, and repeat entire conversations backwards. Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! 2006
During the 1930s, Plennie Wingo walked backwards around the world! ibid.
‘I don’t understand,’ said Alice. ‘It’s dreadfully confusing!’
‘That’s the effect of living backwards,’ said the Queen kindly. ‘It always makes one a little giddy at first –’
‘Living backwards!’ Alice repeated in astonishment. ‘I never heard of such a thing!’ Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
I can’t go back, can I? The Matrix 1999 starring Keanu Reeves & Laurence Fishburne & Carrie-Anne Moss & Hugo Weaving & Joe Pantoliano & Gloria Foster & Marcus Chong & Julian Arahanga & Matt Doran & Belinda McClory & Anthony Ray Parker & David Ashton & Robert Taylor et al, directors The Wachowskis, Neil
The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward. Winston Churchill, variations
If I see an ending, I can work backward. Arthur Miller
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard
I learned to run backwards from Muhammad Ali. He told me about running backwards because you try to imitate everything you do in the ring, so sometimes you back up. So you have to train your legs to go backwards. Sugar Ray Leonard
... and you finish off as an orgasm. George Carlin
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. Aldous Huxley
The Grandfather Paradox is a very simple science-fiction-based apparent inconsistency at the very heart of the idea of backwards time travel. Where does that then leave you? Do you instantly pop out of existence because you were never made? Professor Carl Sagan, interview Horizon: The Time Lords, BBC 1996
This place is fucked! Everything is fucking backwards! Trailer Park Boys: Out of the Park Europe I: London, Netflix 2016, Ricky
We are now travelling faster than is possible for normal space. Star Trek s1e4: The Naked Time, Spock to Kirk
We are going backward in time. ibid. Kirk on bridge
Since the formula worked, we can go back in time to any planet any era. ibid. Spock to Kirk