Clock Quote by James Jeans

We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual…

— Vernor Vinge

I think, that after the arrival of the mechanical clock we see an explosion in scientific thinking and scientific discovery.

— Nicholas G. Carr

To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.

— Alan McGlashan

People don't understand the virtue of time, until their clock stops ticking.

— Steve Goodman

It is the ability to make predictions about the future that is the crux of intelligence.

— Jeff Hawkins

“We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of the state…

— Pierre Simon de Laplace

There are two things I don't care how smart you are, you will never understand. One is an alienist's testimony, and the other is…

— Will Rogers

“The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. In…

— Carl Sagan

“For no one knows what lies under the sands of the world's great deserts. No one knows how many times poor Earth has reeled…

— Doris Lessing

“The cosmos stands amazed at just how dumb Planet Dumb is. With an uncanny talent for error, humanity has at every crossroads taken the…

— Ranty McRanterson

We call ourselves Homo sapiens--man the wise--because our intelligence is so important to us. For thousands of years, we have tried to understand how…

— Stuart J. Russell

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