Arrivals Quote by Nicholas G. Carr

There is no natural phenomenon that is comparable with the sudden and apparently accidentally timed development of science, except perhaps the condensation of a…

— Eugene Wigner

People used to think that biological clocks were not only mysterious, they were seen almost as miracles. This is no longer the case.

— Jeffrey C. Hall

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

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.

— Susan Glaspell

After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.

— Robert Aickman

Scientists who have dedicated their lives to building machines that think, feel that it's only a matter of time before some form of consciousness…

— Michio Kaku

Genius and science have burst the limits of space, and few observations, explained by just reasoning, have unveiled the mechanism of the universe. Would…

— Georges Cuvier

“The new science will be a manifestation of ancient technologies. It will come in sudden, humans will experience technological shock.”

— Toba Beta

Perhaps scientists will eventually discover that we are all clockwork bunnies, and our experience of volition is an electro-chemical illusion.

— Lionel Shriver

Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin…

— Gene Wolfe

“One hundred and fifty years of science have proved more explosive than five thousand years of prescientific culture. It would be absurd to suppose…

— Bertrand Russell

“This kind of event is so rare as to be the stuff of myth. Modern science has never managed to verify that it has…

— Christa Faust