Isaac Newton Quotes

What goes up must come down.

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.

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that we measure entropy. We measure changes and those changes are all for the worse. We measure increasing disorder. Life is hard, says science, and constancy is the greatest of miracles.

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

The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike

Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.

The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.

I bought a clock, but the big hand broke off of it... so I just added "ish" to every number.

Day! Faster and more fast. O'er night's brim, day boils at last.

Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.

Great, it passes on (in constant flow).

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.

A scale is only in balance for a brief second. Inevitably the pendulum swings. It's impossible to maintain.

The only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.

The new environment dictates two rules: first, everything happens faster; second, anything that can be done will be done, if not by you, then by someone else, somewhere.

History is like a clock, it tells you your time of day.

I think we realized the depth of frustration through the current political process. So we said, "OK, we know there's a serious problem here, we know we need to work on it," and now it's "Oh, we need to work on it a lot faster."

The world is a wheel always turning.

The hands of Fate keep time on a heart-shaped watch." - Harkat Mulds(The Trials of Death)

Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.

Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.

I don't know, there's something about you. Say there's an hourglass: the sand's about to run out. Someone like you can always be counted on to turn the thing over.