Time Units Quotes

Time itself comes in drops.

The most understandable thing in the world should be how minutes lead to hours, how hours lead to days, how days can make a year. And yet, this neat progression can still be surprising.

You have to take care of the seconds. The minutes, the hours, and the days will take care of themselves.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

When I think about, say, 1995, or whever the last moment was before most of us were on the internet and had mobile phones, it seems like a hundred years ago. ... Time passed in fairly large units, or at least not in milliseconds and constant updates. A few hours wasn't such a long time to go between moments of contact with your work, your people or your trivia.

Moments into minutes. Minutes into hours. Hours into days. Days into years. Years into possibility. This will linger.

I've only been gone a week," I reminded him. Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight hours. Which is ten thousand, eighty minutes. Which is six hundred thousand, for hundred seconds.

A femtosecond is comparable to one second in 32 million years. It is like watching a 32-million-year movie to see one second.

The schools schedule is a series of units of time; the clock is king.