Time Machine Quotes

• We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.

  Jeremy Irons

  Inspirational, Dream, Time

  "Fictional character: Über-Morlock". "The Time Machine", 2002.

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• We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

  Jeremy Irons

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

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• It would take a civilization far more advanced than ours, unbelievably advanced, to begin to manipulate negative energy to create gateways to the past. But if you could obtain large quantities of negative energy-and that's a big "IF" - then you could create a time machine that apparently obeys Einstein's equation and perhaps the laws of quantum theory.

  Michio Kaku

  Past, Law, Civilization

  "Borrowed Time". Interview with J.R. Minkel, www.scientificamerican.com. November 24, 2003.

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• Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, 'Calm down. Things are gonna be fine. Things are gonna be all great. Just relax.

  Tristan Wilds

  Self, Wish, Relax

  "Meet 90201's Tristan Wilds!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. October 26, 2011.

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• One day they will invent a time machine and, like the internet, it will be used primarily for boning.

  Dana Gould

  One Day, Machines, Internet

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• You don't need a time machine if you know how to remember.

  Rodman Philbrick

  Needs, Machines, Remember

  Rodman Philbrick (2015). “Freak the Mighty”, p.82, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time.

  Kip Thorne

  Machines, Wormholes, Turns

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• Photography is like a found object. A photographer never makes an actual subject; they just steal the image from the world... Photography is a system of saving memories. It's a time machine, in a way, to preserve the memory, to preserve time.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Photography, Memories, Found Objects

  "Marcel Duchamp’s Influence". Art21 Interview, art21.org.

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• Never bring a gun to a fight where the other guy has a time-machine and tomorrow's newspapers.

  James Nicoll

  Fighting, Gun, Guy

  Usenet article, 2006.

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• Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up a jungle river without once being bitten by mosquitoes, or you can almost die of thirst in the desert while holding a cold drink in your hand, or dine in the finest restaurants and never have to worry about paying the bill, or ride the wild country of our western frontier and never worry about losing your scalp to a raiding party.

  Louis L'Amour

  Country, Time, Party

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• Our bodies are the time machine.

  Rudy Rucker

  Machines, Body

  "The Wired Diaries 2000". www.wired.com. January 1, 2000.

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• It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

  H. G. Wells

  Law, Intellectual, Trouble

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.79, Delphi Classics

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• Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition.

  Arthur Koestler

  Space, Machines, Ships

  1953 'The Boredomof Fantasy', collected in The Trail of the Dinosaur (1955), pt.2.

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• The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine.

  Douglas Coupland

  Past, Bulls, Glue

  "The gum thief". Book by Douglas Coupland, September 25, 2007.

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• Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you-and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life.

  Isaac Asimov

  Teacher, Congratulations, Writing

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• Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.

  Arthur Koestler

  Lying, Fate, Technology

  1953 'The Boredomof Fantasy', collected in The Trail of the Dinosaur (1955), pt.2.

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• I always had all of these childhood fantasies about wanting to invent things, like a spaceship or a time machine. And everyone's imagined what it would be like to go back in time and change things, to see what would happen if you had a different life. 'Back to the Future' fulfills all of those daydreams. It's the perfect movie.

  Sasha Grey

  Perfect, Childhood, Different

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• You have all the time in the world, but don't waste a moment.

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  Ram Dass

  World, Waste, Moments

  Ram Dass (2013). “Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart”, p.73, Sounds True

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• When I finally invent a time machine you will already know about it because I'll have told you a long time ago.

  Dana Gould

  Long, Machines, Knows

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Mar 09, 2012

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• Who said time machines haven't been built yet? They already exist. They're called books

  Robert Benchley

  Book, Machines, Said

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• I'm still working on my time machine. If I ever perfect it, I'm going back in time to prevent Ace Ventura 2 from being made. And then I'm going after Hitler.

  Andy Kindler

  Perfect, Machines, Aces

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• The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything ins pace int he past, some as they were before the Earth came to be. Telescopes are time machines.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Distance, Mean

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.31, Ballantine Books

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• Just throw me in a time machine, hit random, and wherever I land would be great... Just being thrown into a different time really fascinates me.

  Beau Mirchoff

  Land, Different, Would Be

  "Beau Mirchoff Interview: ‘Awkward’ Star Talks Time Machines, High School & Matty’s Love Life". Interview with Crystal Bell, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2011.

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• Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

  H. G. Wells

  Life Changing, Science, Needs

  H G Wells (2004). “The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.48, Sparklesoup LLC

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• There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.

  H. G. Wells

  Time, Moving, Space

  H. G. Wells “The Time Machine”, Games by CC

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