What do the ravages of time not injure? Our parents’ age (worse than our grandparents) has produced us, more worthless still, who will soon give rise to a yet more vicious generation. Horace, Odes
Time the devourer of everything. Ovid, Metamorphoses
And meanwhile Time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit. Martin Amis, London Fields
It’s really true that clocks do slow down relative to an observer watching someone travel near the speed of light. Lawrence Krauss
I am all-powerful Time which destroys all things, and I have come here to slay these men. Even if thou dost not fight, all the warriors facing thee shall die. Bhagavad Gita: Krishna’s Dialogue on the Soul 11:32
Time starts now. Bullitt 1968 starring Steve McQueen & Robert Vaughn & Jacqueline Bisset & Don Gordon & Simon Oakland & Norman Fell & Robert Duvall & Georg Stanford Brown & Carl Reindel & Felice Orlandi & Ed Peck & Vic Tayback et al, director Peter Yates, him to her
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
Ah, fill the cup: – what boots it to repeat
How time is slipping underneath our feet:
Unborn TOMORROW, and dead YESTERDAY
Why fret about them [alt. ‘it’] if TODAY be sweet! Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
But know you canst not knit
Thy web of hours so close as to regain
E’en one lost stitch. Wilfred Owen, Lines Written on My Nineteenth Birthday
Remember that time is money. Benjamin Franklin, Advice to a Young Tradesman, 1748
I’m going to go back to the sixties and steal Austin Power’s Mojo. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 1999 starring Will Ferrell & Mike Myers & Heather Graham & Michael York & Robert Wagner & Rob Lowe & Mindy Sterling & Seth Green & Verne Troyer & Elizabeth Hurley & Gia Carides & Oliver Muirhead et al, director Jay Roach, Dr Evil to board
It’s about past seven in the evening here, so we’re actually in different time lines here. George W Bush, 30th January 2001
Time is a violent torrent. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations bk.4
I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours past – which is better than trying to fill them. E M Cioran, 1911-95
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. Don Boucicault
No time like the present. Mrs Manley, The Lost Lover, 1696
The Big Bang is the origin of Space and the origin of Time itself. Michio Kaku, interview How the Universe Works
This is still very speculative, but the mathematics seem to indicate that as you fall through a black hole that you don’t simply die, you fall right through a wormhole, which is a gateway, a shortcut through space and time. ibid.
Time beats at different rates throughout the universe. Time is relative. Michio Kaku, Sci-Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible s1e6: How to Travel Through Time, Science 2010
I still think that using the effect of gravity may hold the answer. ibid.
If the Strings can be made to move past each other, they create a unique vortex shape in the fabric of Space/Time ... Cosmic strings are certainly massive enough to manipulate Space & Time, and allow me to travel into the future and the past. But to build a working practical time machine out of cosmic Strings is going to be real tough. ibid.
Wormholes are formed at the centre of a black hole. They warp the fabric of Space/Time to create a tunnel connecting distant points. They might be ideal for time travel as they would offer a shortcut through Space and Time. ibid.
We believe that the river of time can have whirlpools. Whirlpools by which you may be able to go back and meet your parent before you were born. Or perhaps even fork into two rivers by which you can alter the past to create an alternate universe. Michio Kaku
But now we’re looking for a law of physics to prevent time travel. And lo and behold we can’t find it. Michio Kaku
9The first misconception about Time is that there’s a universal now ... People also believe Time ticks uniformly throughout the universe; actually that’s not true ... Most people assume we live in a three-dimensional world; actually we live in a four-dimensional world: three dimensions of Space and one dimension of Time. Michio Kaku
Time is the most mysterious object in the universe. You can’t see it. You can’t smell it. You can’t touch it. Yet it’s everywhere. That’s the paradox of Time. Michio Kaku, interview Horizon, BBC 2003
Time is relative. The faster you move, the slower Time beats. A clock at the top of a building actually runs a little bit faster than a clock at the bottom of a building. Michio Kaku
But one day if somebody knocks on your door and claims to be your great great great great great great great granddaughter coming from the future going backwards in time to meet her illustrious ancestor – don’t slam the door. Michio Kaku
‘My life has been spent chasing time.’ John Surtees
Einstein’s work completely transformed our view of Time. He showed that Time was bendable. All clocks did not tick at the same rate. Richard Gott
Einstein’s friend, Kurt Godel, who was one of the most famous mathematicians of the twentieth century, found a solution to Einstein’s equations, where Time travel to the past is possible. Richard Gott
If two infinite Strings are passing each other at high speed, you could use them to make a time machine. Richard Gott
So we always knew that if you could travel faster than the speed of light, you could travel back in Time. Richard Gott
It’s something that’s part of our souls. And any attempt to study Time, to understand Time, brings bafflement. Paul Davis
Whether such time travel can be done consistently with causes preceding effects, say, rather than following them: does Nature contrive it so that even with a time machine you can’t intervene to prevent your own conception, for example? Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan, Cosmos: Journeys in Space and Time, PBS 1980
In the early 1980s there was a common misunderstanding that you might be able to travel from one place to the other in the galaxy without covering the intervening distance by plunging into a black hole. But there was something about the whole idea that made me nervous. And it was for that reason that I contacted Kip Thorne. Carl Sagan, interview Horizon: The Time Lords, BBC 1996
As a youngster who was fascinated by the possibility of time travel in science fiction, to be in any way involved in the possible actualisation of Time Travel – it brings goose bumps. ibid.
It is one of those concepts that is profoundly resistant to definition. ibid.
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? ibid.
It might be that time travel into the past is possible. But they haven’t got to our Time yet .... Then there’s the possibility they’re here all right, and we don’t see them. ibid.
The modern system of Time we use on our watches, it’s twelve hours of a.m. and twelve hours of p.m. ... Our present system of Time is a microcosm of the Yugas system. Walter Cruttenden, author Lost Star of Myth and Time
If I turn the device on today, and I leave it on for a hundred years, then someone a hundred years from now could travel back seventy-five years, fifty years, twenty-five years all the way back to the time I turned the machine on. But they can’t travel earlier than that because the device didn’t exist earlier than that. Ronald Mallett, University of Connecticut
Relativity theory says in general that once you’ve made a time machine you can never use it to go backwards in time before the period it was made. Kip Thorne
If backward time is possible, what does Nature do about the so-called Grandfather Paradox? Kip Thorne
Time is the thing out there that flows. And I go with the flow. Kip Thorne, interview Horizon: The Time Lords, BBC 1996
Once it appeared time machines were a real possibility we then had to face the question of paradoxes. Of going back in Time and changing history. And thereby causing the foundations of Physics to crumble beneath us. ibid.