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"What then, is time? If no one asks me, I know. If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not. - St Augustine of Hippo (p. 7)
11th-century Islamic scientist/philosopher Avicenna "argued that time existed only in the mind, based on our memories and expectations." Isaac Newton said it was a substance. (p. 7)
"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."- John Wheeler (p. 8)
"Wounds heal in time, things are constructed in time, things disappear in time and are destroyed in time, but this is not what time does." B. F. Skinner (p. 8)
Heraclitus argued "that there was no permanent reality but the reality of change, which characterized everything, and that the only possible real state was the transitional one of becoming. (p. 14)
"Time may not only be queerer than we imagine, but queerer than we can imagine." - British scientist J B S Haldane (p. 23)
Einstein characterized the past, present, and future as a persistent illusion. (p. 23)
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed." Henri-Louis Bergson (p. 27)
11th-century Islamic scientist/philosopher Avicenna "argued that time existed only in the mind, based on our memories and expectations." Isaac Newton said it was a substance. (p. 7)
"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."- John Wheeler (p. 8)
"Wounds heal in time, things are constructed in time, things disappear in time and are destroyed in time, but this is not what time does." B. F. Skinner (p. 8)
Heraclitus argued "that there was no permanent reality but the reality of change, which characterized everything, and that the only possible real state was the transitional one of becoming. (p. 14)
"Time may not only be queerer than we imagine, but queerer than we can imagine." - British scientist J B S Haldane (p. 23)
Einstein characterized the past, present, and future as a persistent illusion. (p. 23)
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed." Henri-Louis Bergson (p. 27)
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