What lies at the heart of a black hole? Some scientists believe we could use black holes as a portal with potential to travel across the universe. How the Universe Works s1e2: Black Holes, Discovery 2010
The time machines of science fiction offer infinite possibilities. But could science travel ever be science fact? How the Universe Works s8e6: Secrets of Time Travel
Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe unfold in front of you in a matter of moments and you will emerge into another space-time created by the singularity of the black hole you just fell into? Neil deGrasse Tyson
Nae man can tether time or tide. Robert Burns, Tam o’Shanter
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Louis-Hector Berlioz
I’ve lost a lot of time. It’s gone. King of New York 1990 ***** starring Christopher Walken & Laurence Fishburne & David Caruso & Steve Buscemi & Wesley Snipes & Victor Argo & Giancarlo Esposito et al, director Abel Ferrara, Frank to counselor
Do Not Squander Time. That is the Stuff Life is Made of. Gone With the Wind 1939 starring Clark Gable & Vivien Leigh & Leslie Howard & Olivia de Haviland & Thomas Mitchell & Barbara Mitchell & Evelyn Keyes & Ann Rutherford & George Reeves & Fred Crane & Hattie McDaniel & Alicia Rhett et al, director Victor Fleming, inscription
Jennifer, I don’t know how to tell you this but we created a time machine. Back to the Future II 1989 starring Michael J Fox & Christopher Lloyd & Lea Thompson & Thomas F Wilson & James Tolkan & Jeffrey Weissman & Elisabeth Shue & Billy Zane & Charles Fleischer et al, director Robert Zemeckis, Marty
Time is an illusion, lunch-time doubly so. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 2005 starring Martin Freeman & Sam Rockwell & Mos Def & Zooey Deschanel & Bill Nighy & Warwick Davis & Anna Chancellor & John Malkovich & Kelly Macdonald et al, director Garth Jennings; see also novel Douglas Adams, Ford
‘The first ten million years were the worst,’ said Marvin, ‘and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn’t enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.’ Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
We are now travelling faster than is possible for normal space. Star Trek s1e4: The Naked Time, Spock to Kirk
We are going backward in time. ibid. Kirk on bridge
Since the formula worked, we can go back in time to any planet any era. ibid. Spock to Kirk
There is a theory: there could be some logic to the belief that time is fluid like a river with current, eddies, backwash. Star Trek s1e28: The City on the Edge of Forever
Captain, got a minute? Star Trek s2e1: Amok Time, McCoy to Kirk
I see Time as a constant. Star Trek: The Next Generation s1e24: We’ll Always Have Paris, Data to Picard
Mr LaForge, time is one thing we do not have in abundance. Star Trek: The Next Generation s2e11: Contagion
I’m moving back and forth through Time. Star Trek: The Next Generation s7e25: All Good Things I, Picard
If anyone can find the cause of the time shift, it’s Dax. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s3e17: Visionary, O’Brien
Let me get this straight – you want to travel back in time to see if Gul Dukat and your mother were lovers? Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s6e17: Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night, Sisko to Kira
I don’t have much time. Star Trek: Voyager s2e8: Persistence of Vision, Janeway to B’Elanna & Harry
We may have wandered into some kind of repeating time loop ... The question is, How do we break it? Star Trek: Voyager s3e15, Coda
Captain, do you have a minute? Star Trek: Voyager s3e18: Darkling, Kes
Not everyone has the ability to truly conceive Time, its moods, its colours. Star Trek: Voyager s4e9: Year of Hell II, Annorax to Chakotay
Time’s up. ibid. Janeway
Watch out for the Janeway factor: your Captain has a knack for sticking her nose where it doesn’t belong especially when it comes to time travel. Helpful? That woman has been responsible for three major temporal incursions. And who do you think had to repair the damage? Me. Star Trek: Voyager s5e24: Relativity, Captain Braxton to Seven of Nine
Time and tide wait for no man. Late 14th century proverb
Time flies. Late 14th century proverb
Time is money. Late 16th century proverb
An American shaman embarked on a different type of cosmic journey in the 1970s. This counter-culture hero was searching for answers to the human condition. His name was Terence McKenna. And he combined complex mathematics, Chinese philosophy and psychedelic drugs into a controversial form of prophecy. His quest eventually led him to conclude that just as the Mayans predicted over a thousand years earlier, man’s end was destined for 2012 ... Use of these recreational drugs led to Terence McKenna’s ground-breaking work: Time-Wave Theory. Nostradamus Effect s1e3: Extinction 2012, History 2009
In rivers the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time. Leonardo da Vinci
I confess I do not believe in Time. Vladimir Nabokov
Fly envious Time, till thou run out thy race,
Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours … John Milton, On Time
Time the subtle thief of youth. John Milton, Sonnet 7, ‘How Soon Hath Time’, 1645
But meanwhile it is flying, irretrievable time is flying. Virgil, Georgics
Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,
And then thou must be damned perpetually.
Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven,
That time may cease, and midnight never come. Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus, 1604
Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past. T S Eliot, 1888-1965, Four Quartets: ‘Burnt Norton’
Because I know that time is always time
And place is always and only place
And what is actual is actual only for one time
And only for one place. T S Eliot, Ash Wednesday
You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss,
A sigh is just a sigh;
The fundamental things apply,
As time goes by. Herman Hupfield, As Time Goes By, song 1931
For tyme ylost may nought receovered be. Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
O aching time! O moments big as years. John Keats, Hyperion: A Fragment
We take no note of Time
But from its loss. Edward Young, Night Thoughts
Procrastination is the thief of time. ibid.
Time has too much credit ... It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary. Ivy Compton-Burnett, 1884-1969, Darkness and Day, 1951
… If your time to you is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone
The times they are a-changin’. Bob Dylan, title of song
Let us draw an arrow arbitrarily. If as we follow the arrow we find more and more of the random element in the world, then the arrow is pointing towards the future; if the random element decreases the arrow points towards the past … I shall use the phrase ‘time’s arrow’ to express this one-way property of time which has no analogue in space. Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World, 1928