Passing Years Quote by Arthur Stanley Eddington Download Open image ““We are all of us clocks whose faces tell the passing years.”” — Arthur Stanley Eddington ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Passing Years
“What a pity clocks don't realize the interesting work they do in making history, as they go on ticking out moments which never before… — Alice Muriel Williamson Copy Share Image
“The clocks are ticking my friends. History has got a strict timetable. If we're not careful we might be remembered as the country who… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
“A clock and a watch may be different, but time is all they talk about.” — Eduvie Donald Copy Share Image
“Be mindful of how you approach time. Watching the clock is not the same as watching the sun rise.” — Sophia Bedford-Pierce Copy Share Image
“We had any number of clocks surrounding us, and every one of them at one time or another exhibited a lively sense of humor.” — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“The clocks had struck their dreadful purpose and the time now brought all circumstances into the circle.” — Don Bradley Copy Share Image
“. . . another year has passed, or so they say, but calenders lie. They're a kind of cosmic business machine like their cousin… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“Clocks served two purposes, in my opinion. The first was to tell people the time, and the second to impress upon me that time… — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the past doesn't always preserve the beautiful order that clocks give to the present, and perhaps the future is rushing up in disorder,… — Raymond Quaneau Copy Share Image
“Aside from all else, there is some truth in that; clocks indeed must have their sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“The simpler elements of the scientific world have no immediate counterparts in everyday experience; we use them to build things which have counterparts.” — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“We take as building material relations and relata. The relations unite the relata; the relata are the meeting-points of the relations. The one is… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“It would probably be wiser to nail up over the door of the new quantum theory a notice, 'Structural alterations in progress - No… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“The suggestion that the body really wanted to go straight but some mysterious agent made it go crooked is picturesque but unscientific. It makes… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“The cleavage between the scientific and the extra-scientific domain of experience is, I believe, not a cleavage between the concrete and the transcendental but… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life. The shadow of my elbow rests on the… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“When we analyse the picture into a large number of particles of paint, we lose the aesthetic significance of the picture. The particles of… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“The law that entropy always increases, holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. … if your theory is found to… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“Of the two alternatives - a curved manifold in a Euclidean space of ten dimensions or a manifold with non-Euclidean geometry and no extra… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“Out of the numbers proceeds that harmony of natural law which it is the aim of science to disclose. We can grasp the tune… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“Let us begin with the fine-structure constant. ... The fine-structure constant is really the ratio of two natural units or atoms of action. ...… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“The mind-stuff of the world is, of course, something more general than our individual conscious minds.... It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“The ultimate luxury is to reread: to revisit a book to see how time has treated it, how memory has distorted it, or how… — Michael Upchurch Copy Share Image
I have absolutely no objection to growing older. I am a stroke survivor so I am extremely grateful to be ageing - I have… — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
“Zhi yin. Jem had told her once that it meant understanding music, and also a bond that went deeper than friendship. Jem played, and… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The thing about praising beauty is that good looks are an unforgiving task- master, a Forth Bridge of a maintenance job. The passing years… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair.… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
The true beauty of a woman is reflected in her soul; it is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The little girl Dressed in pain A little mad But always sad Her arms are scarred And her heart is broke She tried to… — Im Nothing Copy Share Image
The stream of passing years is like a river with people being carried along in the current. Some are swept along, protesting, fighting all… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
I take your hand, brother, so that you may go in peace. Will had opened his blue eyes that never lost their colour over… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“So she guessed you could word hard to make yourself who you wanted to be and yet find that the passing years had transformed… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
All of your days, I have walked with you, Giggling, Smiling, Laughing, Inside your head. Once upon a time, I was born, Dreamed of,… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with… — Sam Levenson Copy Share Image
