In Search of Time Quotes

“The urge to cram the maximum number of activities into the minimum amount of time, notes French cultural commentator Francois Tournier, makes us “prisoners of the present… If we do not slow down, we risk becoming alienated from our own future.”
― Dan Falk, In Search of Time: The History, Physics, and Philosophy of Time

“We have also shattered many related illusions: that the world is flat, for example; that the sky is a vast dome; that the sun moves around the earth. These and many similar illusions stem merely from the fact that we observe the universe from a particular vantage point — “illusions of perspective,” we might call them.”
― Dan Falk, In Search of Time: The History, Physics, and Philosophy of Time

“so far ahead, with at least some degree of confidence. It is also rather intriguing that the fate of the universe billions upon billions of years in the future is actually clearer to us than the fate of our own civilization just a few centuries from now.”
― Dan Falk, In Search of Time: The History, Physics, and Philosophy of Time

“TV series Cosmos — all those billions of years that lie ahead offer the opportunity to do a great deal of good. Further, it is quite impressive that with our finite hominid brains we have been able to peer”
― Dan Falk, In Search of Time: The History, Physics, and Philosophy of Time

“it is “rather like throwing a ball in the air and finding it takes a million years to come down again.”)”
― Dan Falk, In Search of Time: The History, Physics, and Philosophy of Time

“The decay process, governed by the “weak” nuclear force, can go both ways; that is, physicists can smash pions together to create kaons. But there is a difference: the reaction used to produce kaons takes just a trillionth of a trillionth of a second (10-24 seconds), but the decay takes longer — up to a nanosecond (109 seconds). Why should the decay of a kaon take a thousand trillion times longer than its creation?”
― Dan Falk, In Search of Time: The History, Physics, and Philosophy of Time

“A Belgian physicist named Georges Lemaître, who was also a Catholic priest,”
― Dan Falk, In Search of Time: The History, Physics, and Philosophy of Time