Temporal Dynamics Quotes

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point.

The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.

The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.

Having begun my life in science searching for the equation beyond time, I now believe that the deepest secret of the universe is that its essence rests in how it unfolds moment by moment in time.

Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic].

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up

Standing outside the cultural hysteria the trend is fairly clear. It is a trend toward temporal compression and the emergence of ambiguity.

Thus my research on dromology, on the logic and impact of speed, necessarily implies the study of the organisation of territory.

Time is a series of fluctuating variables.

It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.

The so called "progress," "time marching on," is not a straight line, but a pendulum.

How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!

The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.

You see, should I stand in front of a landscape and paint it, I'm completely ignoring the factor of time. While I am painting it, it's changing, clouds are changing, all sorts of things. So there's the myth there of someone creating in a timeless vacuum.

Time is the great workman of Nature.

In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.

Although the assembly of the shots is responsible for the structure of the film, it does not, as is generally assumed, create its rhythm; the distinct time running through the shots makes the rhythm of the picture, and the rhythm is determined not by the length of edited pieces, but by the pressure of the time that runs through them. The pieces that 'won't edit', that can't be properly joined, are those which record a radically different kind of time

History is rooted in the future

Time has driven out sex and money as the central issues. Now if it could only drive out the issue of power we would be somewhere!

The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art.

We need a certain amount of energy to produce the sound. But then to sustain it, we have to give more energy, or otherwise, it goes and it dies in silence. And therefore, sound is absolutely, inextricably connected to time, the length of time.

How the past perishes is how the future becomes.

Hence not only the crisis of geopolitics and geostrategy but also the shift towards the emergence and dominance of chronostrategy.