Benefactors Quote by Isaac Asimov

What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.

— Susan Glaspell

It turns out that the history of astrophysics is where we perfected time keeping.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Time clocks rob the world of wild possibility. That's what they're for.

— Stephanie Mills

It is largely dissynchronous timing standards that have kept human beings off-balance and alienated from the natural cycles of the Earth they inhabit. The…

— Jose Arguelles

Time has always been used against us on a certain level. The invention of the clock made us accountable to the employer, gave us…

— Douglas Rushkoff

The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which…

— Wyndham Lewis

“Even in some industrialized nations, time is viewed more as an estimate than an exact science. Brazilians, Spaniards, and Southeast Indians, for instance, don’t…

— Diana Delonzor

“Two silent time zones had now merged to form the standard time of one man's fate; and it is not impossible that the poet…

— Vladimir Nabokov

In India there was a sense of time that does not tick with modern clocks, just as there is a knowledge that is not…

— Huston Smith

Time was invented by the Almighty God in order to give ideas a chance.

— Nicholas Murray Butler

One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is. It gave…

— James Gleick

Everything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid.

— Jose Arguelles