Brian Greene Quotes

The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.

Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it.

Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is

It's entirely possible that the notion of what is the past, what is the present and what is the future, could change.

Time is the great mystery anyway. And it's still the great mystery in the moving picture as well.

There is no future. There is no past. Do you see? Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet.

Time has only a relative existence.

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time

Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear solves the scrambled cryptogram. One abiding rhythm, present and always, and you're free. But a few measures more, and the cloak of time closes back around you.

Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity suggests layers of things, the past and present somehow coalescing or co-existing.

There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.

Have you ever heard of the theory of relativity?" Artemis blinked. "Is this a joke? I have traveled through time, Doctor. I think I know a little something about relativity.

The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.

Traveling makes time go fast. So maybe traveling in space will give people time.

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour

Time is not outside us, but inside. Only we live with past, present, and future, and the present is too brief to experience anyway; it is retained afterward and then it is either codified or it slips into amnesia.

There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.

Three days: Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday, I know, Yet if the past were cancelled within the here and now, And then the future hidden, I could regain that Day, Which I, before I was, had lived in God's own way.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

Of all the islands he'd visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past time and the inhabitants were bored and more or less happy, but where the weight of illusion was so great that the island sank a little deeper into the river every day. And the island of the future, where the only time was the future, and the inhabitants were planners and strivers, such strivers, said Ulises, that they were likely to end up devouring one another.

One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.