Science Quote by Carl Sagan

“In a clock the complex action of countless different wheels works its way out in the even, leisurely movement of hands measuring time; in…

— Leo Tolstoy

Rahel’s toy wristwatch had the time painted on it. Ten to two. One of her ambitions was to own a watch on which she…

— Arundhati Roy

“Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every moment with…

— Charles Dickens

“..ust in time to see the long-strided watchman of the minutes catch up with his bowlegged brother of the hours. As the two embarced,…

— Amor Towles

“One spring morning timing the lean near-liquid progress of a horse on a track, the dust exploding, the rapid hasping of his hocks, coming…

— Cormac McCarthy

“The men wore loose loincloths that did little to conceal penes like pendulums on grandfather clocks. There”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“the clock is not merely a means of keeping track of the hours, but of synchronising the actions of men”

— David Landes

“You can’t measure time the way you measure the distance between two points. “Time” doesn’t pass. We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing…

— Paulo Coelho

“The more perfect the instrument as a measurer of time, the more completely does it conceal time's arrow.”

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must…

— Jay Griffiths

“Time in the wood's older than time in clocks, and truer.”

— David Mitchell

“Time. So much of our human experience is bound up in time, I muse. It reflects in our everyday colloquialisms, and drives so much…

— John Dolan