Camille Flammarion Quote

What, indeed, is the Present Moment? It is an open trap through which the Future falls incessantly into the gulf of the Past.


Translated by Frances Alice Welby, Astronomy for Amateurs, Chapter XII (p. 326)


What, indeed, is the Present Moment? It is an open trap through which the Future falls incessantly into the gulf of the Past.

What, indeed, is the Present Moment? It is an open trap through which the Future falls incessantly into the gulf of the Past.

What, indeed, is the Present Moment? It is an open trap through which the Future falls incessantly into the gulf of the Past.

What, indeed, is the Present Moment? It is an open trap through which the Future falls incessantly into the gulf of the Past.