Jay Griffiths Quotes

In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a day. You know, in the digital age, a minute is just a number. It's just 3:23. It's almost this absolute duration that doesn't have a connection to where the sun is or where our day is.

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.

Is time our invention, or is time a real thing... I realize we're measuring it, but in the cosmic scheme of things, is there really time?

They took away time, and they gave us the clock.

I'm trying to understand how time works. And that's a huge question that has lots of different aspects to it.

Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.

Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after.

I got players with bad watches - they can't tell midnight from noon.

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.

Every white man seemed to have a great concern about time. We enjoyed time, they measured it…. Hours, minutes, and seconds were such small divisions of time that we never thought of them.

Apparently, some physicists argue that time is curved. I suppose this means that the past is in some way still present.

Time itself is talked about as something that is unusual, that there could be a parallel time.

I don't like clocks.

He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?

Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time.

The test is the sixty seconds of every minute, and the sixty minutes of every hour, not our times of prayer and devotional meetings.

Let's stop the startwatch.

A Clock is not time; it's numbers and springs. Pay it no mind.

There are two kinds of clocks. There is the clock that is always wrong, and that knows it is wrong, and glories in it; and there is the clock that is always right - except when you rely upon it, and then it is more wrong than you would think a clock could be in a civilized country.

It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.

Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and by another name is called duration. Relative, apparent, and common time is any sensible and external measure (precise or imprecise) of duration by means of motion; such as a measure-for example, an hour, a day, a month, a year-is commonly used instead of true time.