The celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork.
—Johannes Kepler, 1605
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
—John Berger, 1984For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCTime is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962