Isaac Newton Quotes

Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.

I feel all things as dynamic events, being, changing, and interacting with each other in space and time even as I photograph them.

Time and space are just projections of your consciousness.

Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.

When you talk and think of the Absolute, you have to do it in the relative; so all these logical arguments apply.

My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.

There's something uniquely interesting about Buddhism and mathematics, particularly about quantum physics, and where they meet. That has fascinated us for a long time.

The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.

I mean, movies in general tend to sort of portray time, space and identity as these very solid things. Time moves forward. Space is what it is. You are you, and you're always you.

Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.

Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.

Time itself is an element.

But surely, speaking carefully, we do not sense 'red' and 'blue' any more than 'resemblance' (or 'qualities' any more than 'relations'): we sense something of which we might say, if we wished to talk about it, that 'this is red.'

Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life.

In the consciousness of eternity, time is not, neither is space. In man's consciousness there appears so much mercy, so much love, that these have been called time and space.

The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.

Doth the Reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and that bears no relation to the mind?

Even if we try to see people in our lives accurately, it is distorted by our own wants and prejudices and experiences.

That's one of the first things that comes out of young people's mouths when they're in love. FOREVER. And that's cool, it's all good-until you get old enough to realize what forever is.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

Light is time thinking about itself.