Branches Quote by Jay Griffiths

As the Earth continues to slow, leap seconds will grow more common. Eventually we will need one every year, and then even more. Scientists…

— James Gleick

Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all…

— Orhan Pamuk

Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours.

— H. Rider Haggard

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass…

— Michael Ende

“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

Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.

— Charles Lindbergh

“Anyway, time is more than counting days. On the outside, people think clocks tell them the time. They set an alarm for work and…

— Rene Denfeld

Because time isn't something that always proceeds at the same pace. It is we who determine how quickly time passes.

— Paulo Coelho

Those clocks are sophisticated instruments that calculate time by measuring electrical charges called coulombs -- given the rapidity and volume of electrons that move…

— Dean Lombardi

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

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them.

— Caroline B. Cooney

The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity to the…

— Jay Griffiths