Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
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You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only chan... LARRY WALL The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz... BEN OKRI Bring 'only' good memories from the past to your present and that will bring you all the happiness,n... ANUROOP TYAGI Bohr's influence on the physics and the physicists of our century was stronger than that of anyo... WERNER HEISENBERG Albert Einstein: Algae? This is a color? IQ Albert Einstein: If you had had a nickel for every nickel that he has, you would have a lot of nicke... IQ Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no ... SAUL BELLOW In the present, there is only the here and now. For the past is gone and the future has yet to a... GABRIELLA GODDARD The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all th... ALFRED WHITEHEAD The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all tha... ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD There are those of us who learn to live completely in the moment. For such people the Past vanishes ... SALMAN RUSHDIE The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinne... OSCAR WILDE The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinn... OSCAR WILDE I believe in you and me. I'm like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that... FRANK SINATRA People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why ... THICH NHAT HANH I’ve learned that fear is simply an illusion based on past experiences that we project into the pr... GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, ... TENNESSEE WILLIAMS My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future. VLADIMIR HOROWITZ Some days you live in pajamas, and your hair kind-of has that Albert Einstein look. A.D. POSEY My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity, and not only this present world, ... SUN MYUNG MOON The poet W.H. Auden wrote that people come in two varieties: Utopians, who imagine the perfect world... MARGARET MARK Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full ... WALTER BENJAMIN The novelist is required to create the illusion of a whole world with believable people in it, and t... FLANNERY O'CONNOR For me, there's no distinction between English and British. We are the biggest nation in the world t... DAVE RICHARDS What we are proposing,' Alicia said, 'is that the laws of physics are such that causality violation ... DEXTER PALMER If they know nothing of death, it is because they know little of life, for the secrets of life and d... OSCAR WILDE The only real valuable thing is intuition. -Albert Einstein. ALBERT EINSTEIN The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without pa... JEANETTE WINTERSON A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prom... ERIC HOFFER Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds ~ Albert Einstein ALBERT EINSTEIN There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to acomplish, bo... EDMUND BURKE Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and t... JOHN POLKINGHORNE Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that... WINSTON S. CHURCHILL The past is behind, learn from it.The future is ahead, prepare for it.The present is here, live it. THOMAS S. MONSON There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, an... JOHN RUSKIN The present is our own. The right-this-second, the here-and-now, this moment before the next, is our... RENEE CARLINO The past and the future are tools of the ego that render us finite. Without our judgments about the ... HUMAN ANGELS I believe we can see the future because some part of us responds to the fact that past, present, and... BRIAN L. WEISS, M.D. My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew's and Albert Einstein's. DICK CAVETT No sex between Mulder and Scully! Only deep friendship. People thinking there's more than that betwe... DAVID DUCHOVNY He was impressive. Even when Blanco got that hit, he still managed to keep us in check. I don't know... JEFF BLAUSER The point is that the arts are important enough to have influenced the greatest minds and talents we... MICKEY HART Limitlessness is the emotion that sunny mornings evoke in me now. A new appreciation for the present... KALEB KILTON We’re not the Faster-than-the-Speed-of-Light Generation anymore. We’re not even the Next-New-Thi... TIM THARP There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now EUGENE O'NEILL There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now. EUGENE O'NEILL It creates a sense of pride -- that we're not only people of the past, we're people of the present a... CHAD SMITH In dealing with kids, no matter how little we understand their explanations, we must always remember... BILL COSBY Now I have never met a group of people who hate music more than professional roadies, and it is clea... BUZZ OSBORNE The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it... THOMAS S. MONSON Albert is a great teammate and a great person who is one of the best players in baseball. I take adv... YADIER MOLINA There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that... GREGORY PECK If a man decides that it is better for him to resist the demands of a present feeble love, in the na... LEO TOLSTOY Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. THEODORE ROOSEVELT Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past THEODORE ROOSEVELT An hour later we were walking past rows of busy beach huts and weaving between sunbathers and Frisbe... ALEX GARLAND I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard befor... HAMILTON JORDAN But I don’t believe that the future gives us signs. I think that we look back and read the past wi... CATH CROWLEY This little guy means the world to me. I want to make sure he has all the available resources in Kno... AMY WEBB Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. -Albert Einstein. ALBERT EINSTEIN There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as th... ALBERT EINSTEIN I believe he has a bright international future ahead of him in the years to come. GRAHAM GOOCH Keep your maximum focus on the present and a little planning ahead because without the present there... ASARE BEN CHRIS(ABC) If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. WINSTON CHURCHILL If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. WINSTON S. CHURCHILL People think they're unhappy because they only think of the past and the future, not the present. Li... SNOW DROP He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future. GEORGE ORWELL Enough,' said Mercedes, 'enough Edmond! Believe me that she who alone recognized you has been the on... ALEXANDRE DUMAS Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain eff... ALAN LIGHTMAN Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off ... JOHN BERGER The only thing between me and my future is me. Where does that leave the rest of the world? DEDRICK D. L. PITTER What we are left with then is the present, the only time where miracles happen. We place the past an... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me bel... LATOYA JACKSON I'm like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that I have a respect for... FRANK SINATRA Einste... WOLFGANG ERNST PAULI Right now, at this moment, realize that you are living in the present, that you are living in realit... ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV The most perplexing yet marvellous phenomena to me so far, is that connecting the dots and seeing pa... NADER IBRAHIM Any good history begins in strangeness. The past should not be comfortable. The past should not a fa... RICHARD WHITE He [Abram] believes that the PRESENT is the only real thing and everything else is an illusion ... JENNIFER DELUCY To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, presen... BO BENNETT Nothing pleases me more than when somebody who was awe-inspired to be working with me realizes I'... ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a re... TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here,... THOMAS S. MONSON Past is experience and future an illusion, both being mostly useless because the change is in every ... 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