time Quotes

Time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions.

Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.

Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.'

I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don't know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy.

I'm never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going.

The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form.

I have wondered about time all my life.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch - which seems unlikely, now, from the latest data showing accelerating expansion. Consciousness would come to an end at a singularity.