Past and future Quote by Ilya Prigogine

The increase of disorder or entropy with time is one example of what is called an arrow of time, something that distinguishes the past…

— Stephen Hawking

“The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.”

— Ashim Shanker

The weird thing about the arrow of time is that it's not to be found in the underlying laws of physics. It's not there.…

— Sean M. Carroll

Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.

— Arthur Eddington

The particular aspect of time that I'm interested in is the arrow of time: the fact that the past is different from the future.…

— Sean M. Carroll

“Indeed, it is evident that the mere passage of time itself is destructive rather than generative [...] because change is primarily a 'passing away.'…

— Aristotle

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Time's arrow, we are told, is a one-way thing. . . Memory's arrow, like the needle of a compass too close to a lodestone,…

— Russell Hoban

Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.

— Albert Einstein

The arrow of time doesn't move forward forever. There's a phase in the history of the universe where you go from low entropy to…

— Sean M. Carroll

“By being unknowable, by resulting from events which, at the sub-atomic level, cannot be fully predicted, the future remains malleable, and retains the possibility…

— Iain M. Banks