Apr 03, 2005 22:13
"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. Space is what prevents everything from happening to me." - attributed to John Archibald Wheeler
"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so." - Douglas Adams
"What is time? I know what it is, but when you ask me I don't." - Augustine of Hippo
This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel,
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
"I confess I do not believe in time." - Vladimir Nabokov
"Truth is always new, therefore timeless." - J. Krishnamurti