Temporal Disparity Quotes

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it.

It's hard being a rock; they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.

The present necessarily betrays the past.

I think there should be an Occupy Gallifrey. Because 0.000001% of the people have 99.99999% of the Time.

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.

In one era, it's hard enough to compare people. But comparing people of different eras... that's next to impossible.

Individual human beings are so subtly developed through the centuries that it is strictly impermissible to compare any two men who are not contemporaries-that is to say are taken from two quite different times.

The rock, for its part, is not even aware of our existence because we are alive for only a brief instant of its lifespan. To it, we are like flashes in the dark.

One thing I learned is that the park by the river in a recent story, 'Getting Closer,' is the same park by the river that appears for a moment near the end of 'The Eighth Voyage of Sinbad,' a story first published 23 years earlier. This echo at first irritated me, then pleased me deeply.