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In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes: so with time present.

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"Time," said George, "why I can give you a definition of time. It's what keeps everything from happening at once."

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This same Space; the spread of this lawn... what would it be in another hundred years? Or a thousand? This little Space, from the Beginning to the End so crowded with events and only Time to hold them apart.

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O Time, thou that consumest all things! O envious age, thou destroyest all things and devourest all things with the hard teeth of the years, little by little, in slow death!

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Ray Cummings

Ray Cummings

Born: August 30, 1887
Died: January 23, 1957 (aged 69)
Bio: Ray Cummings was an American author of science fiction, rated one of the "founding fathers of the science fiction pulp genre". He was born in New York City and died in Mount Vernon, New York.
Known for:
  1. The Girl in the Golden Atom (1919)
  2. Brigands of the Moon (1931)
  3. Wandl the Invader (1932)
  4. Beyond the Vanishing Point (1931)
  5. Tarrano the Conqueror (1930)

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