H. G. Wells Quotes

My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.

I believe you can remember the future as much as the past.

I have a secret project which adds four hours every day to the 24 hours we have. There's a bit of time travel involved.

Imaginary time is a new dimension, at right angles to ordinary, real time.

I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn't forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics we usually eventually find a technological way of doing it.

Unlike some of the time-travel movies I love, like 'Primer' or '12 Monkeys,' 'Looper' is not about time travel. It's about this situation that time travel creates and the people dealing with that situation. So narratively, the big challenge was to have time travel get out of the way.

When you are in the future, the past looks different.

Our memory is and always will be as good as time travel gets, and in the meantime time will do the travelling for us.

We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour.

Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the speed of light then, when you return, you may have aged mere seconds while your twin brother or sister will have aged twenty, thirty, forty or however many years it is, depending on how far you traveled. This will come to you as a profound shock, particularly if you didn't know you had a twin brother or sister.

[M]emory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present.

Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.

Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.

Man ... can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way.

There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.

Time is clearly not our natural dimension. Thus it is that we are never really at home in time. Alternately, we find ourselves wishing to hasten the passage of time or to hold back the dawn. We can do neither, of course, but whereas the fish is at home in water, we are clearly not at home in time--because we belong to eternity.

A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.

As people used to be wrong about the motion of the sun, so they are still wrong about the motion of the future. The future stands still, it is we who move in infinite space.

The future will soon be a thing of the past.

So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over into the future and it works.

I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.

Our bodies are the time machine.

Memory is a form of time travel. That's something we do during the course of the day, every single day. The idea of actually being able to physically adjust that and change it instead of being haunted by it is a really human thing.

As time goes on we become old, the future contracts, the past expands...But by future we don't just mean the years ahead; we always mean as well the plenitude of possibilities which challenge our creativity...In confrontation with the future we can become young if we accept the future's challenges.