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- Nov 07, 2020
Time Quotes
Quotes marking moments across time.
This page brings together quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family. It pairs well with Family Quotes for related reflections.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.
- Criticism
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Computer games tend to be boys' games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls to be involved in computing before coming to college so they can see a possible career in information technology.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just because you see pictures of glaciers falling into the ocean doesn't mean anything bad is happening. This is something that happens all the time. It's part of the natural cycle of things. We know from measurements that glaciers have been melting for 200 years at least.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have only one dream. It is the oldest of humanity, of man, in time. It is paradise. I would like to give paradise to everyone.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My architectural drive was to design new types of buildings to help poor people, especially following natural disasters and catastrophes... I will use whatever time is left to me to keep doing what I have been doing, which is to help humanity.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always imagined that I would learn something each time that I would take to a new project, then I realized that each new project poses a completely different challenge.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never told anyone this before, but I'm an obsessive-compulsive. I go back to my hotel room every evening and put the coat hangers back in order and open my bag and rearrange it. It takes a lot of my time, but if I don't do it I can't sleep.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020