Before 1915, space and time were thought of as a fixed arena in which events took place, but which was not affected by what happened in it. Space and time are now dynamic quantities... space and time not only affect but are also affected by everything that happens in the universe.
Stephen Hawking
Related Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live ALBERT EINSTEIN But Einstein came along and took space and time out of the realm of stationary things and put them i... DIMITRI MARIANOFF Our inner space and our peace of mind are affected by our outer space. THICH NHAT HANH Here goes a very short story about three friends , time space and thought, as the time travelled spa... SIDDHARTH DUBEY Here goes a very short story about three friends , time space and thought, as the time travelled spa... SIDDHARTH DUBEY The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or t... PHILIP K. DICK What Olympians eat can vary tremendously depending not only on the events they're competing in, ... CHUCK NORRIS Things have their forms not only in space, but also in time. ALAN MOORE Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time. PAUL AUSTER Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-t... NATHAN MYHRVOLD A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space. ALBERT EINSTEIN It is for this reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be in time alon... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long... ALAN GARNER The Imaginary Intern and I used to say, 'The mind going is the mind coming,' which we meant not only... MARK LEYNER But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time. PATRICK GEDDES If you spend time judging and criticizing people, you will not have time to heal from your pain or b... KEMI SOGUNLE The fireworks went on for nearly half an hour, great pulsing strobes, fiery dandelions and starburst... SOL LUCKMAN Time and space are but the physiological colors which the eye maketh, but the soul is light; where i... RALPH WALDO EMERSON In football, time and space are the same thing. GRAHAM TAYLOR Behind him,across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard ... LOIS LOWRY From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by caus... JEAN PIAGET If space is a fabric, then of course fabrics can have ripples, which we have now seen directly. But ... MICHIO KAKU I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything do... SALMAN RUSHDIE All libraries, everywhere, are connected by the bookworm holes in space created by the strong space-... TERRY PRATCHETT Born too late to explore the world, born too early too explore the universe. INTERNET MEME PROVERB Everything living on earth is created by God within the frames of time and space SUNDAY ADELAJA Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely t... ARTHUR CAYLEY Time is an important ingredient for growth, but sometimes we pass through time and get better; at ot... HENRY CLOUD Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship. KATHRYN STOCKETT The words that come out of our mouths do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, an... ELIF SHAFAK He needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship. KATHRYN STOCKETT Levy was out by time I reached him in right. I've seen collisions before, but this one affected me. GIUSEPPE CHIARAMONTE But I do not know what to tell myself. Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and ... KATHRYN STOCKETT The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present... JEANETTE WINTERSON We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to dea... RUSSELL SHORTO Love is space and time measured by the heart. MARCEL PROUST We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as... JAMES GLEICK Finally, the functionalist organization, by privileging progress (i.e. time), causes the condition o... MICHEL DE CERTEAU Space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind unio... ALBERT EINSTEIN The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony.... ... That's what's happening.... DEYTH BANGER Social media has colonized what was once a sacred space occupied by emptiness: the space reserved fo... MAHERSHALA ALI Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost... DOUGLAS ADAMS All art forms possess liberty beyond space and time, yet grounded by urgency of now, and a breath of... VAL UCHENDU But what you’re calling poetry is what everything is. It’s not even poetry — it’s seeing. Th... ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS There are so many women who contributed in a very real way in pushing for the space program during t... MAHERSHALA ALI Basically, most good science in space flight has to do with the behavior of the human body in space.... CHARLES SIMONYI My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and tim... ALBERT EINSTEIN We outgrew this space a long time ago. It's been cramped as far as in front of house space. JOHN ANDERSEN What are we trying to practice every day? If our friendship depends onthings like space and time, th... RICHARD BACH Bohr 's standpoint, th...
ERWIN SCHRöDINGER But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or i... FRANK STELLA We Colombians want to see action soon which reduces the conflict and means that civilians are not af... CAMILO GOMEZ Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well. MUHAMMAD IQBAL Their faces said that they were affected by what they saw. They understood not only how only the bui... DAVE WISE We could not do it because of urgent matters in the country. There was no right time to have the mee... DINO PATTI DJALAL The Oxygen in Space is so small it will collapse the human lung at the same time will fuel a solar f... JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for ... KATERINA STOYKOVA KLEMER Space is to place as eternity is to time. JOSEPH JOUBERT The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the on... SUBRAHMANYAN CHANDRASEKHAR Time doesn't. All that Time does is make it more distant, put more space between you and what happen... MERCEDES LACKEY We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees. ANNA FREUD It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. It was a place where ... CLIFFORD D. SIMAK Once we lose our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Univer... CARL SAGAN What I'm hearing is that this would not just keep scientists in the academic arena here, but it also... JULIE COONS You know what I'm intrigued by? Like, space and wormholes and Stephen Hawking's theories and... PEACHES GELDOF In today's life, Luxury is Time and Space. HARMON OKINYO Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities ... EDWIN WAY TEALE By 1973, we had a space station, the Skylab, and we had multiple probes going up to planets. So, all... BURT RUTAN Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of
night, time out of space, and spa... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Like we're here, and at the same time, in outer space. Which of course, we are. We're all untethered... MARIA DAHVANA HEADLEY Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities ... EDWIN WAY TEALE A golf course is the epitome of all that is transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but... JEAN GIRAUDOUX Everyone who's in America spends the first few years not experiencing it. The person is frighten... COLM TOIBIN The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind. MUHAMMAD IQBAL Karma is only in space time and causality. Your real self resides non-locally. DEEPAK CHOPRA The dimension of space and time, represented by what is transpiring in the here and now, is all that... KILROY J. OLDSTER Sometimes silence is not an indicator of not caring, but a way to give time and space to the one who... IRENE FANTOPOULOS There are examples in the health medical records space; there are examples in student data and trans... BERT DUMARS Not even the most secular among us can fail to be uplifted by Christianity's architectural legac... MARTIN REES We are extremely honored with our selection by the Air Force Space Command to assist in the moderniz... BRAD ANTLE Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main... EDUARDO CHILLIDA Divine worship means the same thing where time is concerned, as the temple where space is concerned.... JOSEF PIEPER The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outs... MARYA MANNES What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure... ERWIN SCHRODINGER Love transcends dimensions of time and space. BROWNELL LANDRUM We are calling off any trial test runs scheduled at the end of the month until such time that we are... ALFONSO CUSI But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space progr... SALLY RIDE Nearly 1,000 dead -- I cannot remember a time when so many were killed in such a short space of time... HAMADOUN TOURE Time and space have no meaning, just as your conscious thoughts are meaningless. STEPHEN RICHARDS The Mesh difference is that with GPS-enabled mobile Web devices and social networks, physical goods ... LISA GANSKY She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be etern... SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which fe... ROBERT HUGHES Leaving the space station was bittersweet - I had been there for a long time and looked forward to l... SCOTT KELLY America is now a space-faring nation. a frontier good for millions of years. The only time remotely ... JAMES S. MCDONNELL When you are up there, feeling infinite space, the earth looks like a fragile planet against the imm... GUY LALIBERTE My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation. LUKE FORD You have to say now that space is something. Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be qu... LEONARD SUSSKIND For a long time, it was believed that war was waged by armies which could not be identified with the... FERDINAND BUISSON Now he was…dust. To an outside observer, these ten seconds had been ground up into ten thousand un... GREG EGAN We expect the first Virgin Galactic space flight to take place in 2008, which gives our Flying Club ... SIR RICHARD BRANSON
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