Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.
One can best observe a movement of the time - its dangers as well as its advantages - by scrutinising it in its strongest, most pronounced form.
The present is the key to the past
In fact, I think when we carry out a complete analysis of time, I think what we're going to discover is that like matter, time is composed of elemental, discrete types.
I'm trying to understand how time works. And that's a huge question that has lots of different aspects to it.
It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it.