time as a continuum Quotes

Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like a child's toy Slinky.

Time is eternity begun.

Time neither moves nor is stationary. Time changes.

An infinite number of real parts of time, passing in succession, and exhausted one after another, appears so evident a contradiction, that no man, one should think, whose judgement is not corrupted, instead of being improved, by the sciences, would ever be able to admit of it.

I don't have a past. I have a continuous present. The past is part of the present, just as the future is. We exist in time.

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

Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.

You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.

I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.