“There is no time apart from change. There is no such thing as a clock outside the network of changing relationships. …one can only compare how fast one thing is happening with the rate of some other process.”
Three Roads to Quantum Gravity (2000)
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American cosmologist 1955Related quotes
“Time is described only in terms of change in the network of relationships that describes space.”
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“And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.”
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“Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.”
Mohsin Hamid book The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) American protestant theologian
Niebuhr's preferred form, as declared by his widow
The Serenity Prayer (c. 1942)
Variant: God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
“When the rate of change outside exceeds the rate of change inside, the end is in sight.”
Jack Welch (1935) American executive: General Electric CEO
Variant: If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.