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21 " The first thing we should do in order to grasp the realm of time travel is by redefining general perception and common concepts regarding time within our daily language structure. "
― Toba Beta , My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
22 " That's the thing about time travel — you're always moving forward, even when you go back. "
― James A. Owen , Here, There Be Dragons (Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica, #1)
23 " Well, that's it." I said after we had waited for another five minutes and found ourselves still in a state of pleasantly welcome existence. " The ChronoGuard has shut itself down and time travel is as it should be: technically, logically, and theoretically...impossible." " Good thing, too," reply Landon. " It always made my head ache. In fact, I was thinking of doing self help book for science-fiction novelists eager to write about time travel. It would consist of a single word: Don't. "
24 " Snow is both our best friend and worst enemy. Best friend because it shows us in a concrete form the paths other have taken to get where they are. Worst enemy because it will tell such tales of us if we chance upon it. I find poetry in snow that cannot be resisted. In a way, it is the closest to time travel most civilians will ever manage. "
― Thomm Quackenbush , A Creature Was Stirring
25 " The truth is, time travel is hard, and people are lazy. "
― Margaret Peterson Haddix , Redeemed (The Missing, #8)
26 " He made time travel sound almost like hide-and-seek or capture the flag or some other spylike game--only with higher stakes and greater consequences. "
27 " First of all, time travel per se does not exist. ‘Travel’ implies that you choose both your destination and when you come back. It’s more a ‘time shot,’ a ‘time through.’ But it’s definitely not time travel. "
― Francis Y. Barel , Saving Kennedy
28 " All the various time travel devices used by Verne and Bert were stored in the repository, Poe explained, including the ones that had never quite worked as they were meant to. There was one that resembled a blue police box from London—“Stolen by a doctor with delusions of grandeur,” said Poe—one that was simply a large, transparent sphere—“Created by a scientist with green skin and too much ego,” said Verne—and one that was rather ordinary by comparison.“This one looks like an automobile,” John said admiringly, “with wings.”“The doors open that way for a reason,” Verne explained, “we just never figured out what it was. The inventor of this particular model tried integrating his designs into a car, an airplane, and even a steam engine train. He was running a crackpot laboratory in the Arizona desert, and he never realized that it was not his inventions themselves, but his proximity to some sort of temporal fluctuation in the local topography, that allowed them to work.” “What happened to him?” asked Jack.“He’d get the machines up to one hundred and six miles per hour,” said Bert, “and then he’d run out of fuel and promptly get arrested by whatever constabulary had been chasing him. The sad part was that Jules figured out if he’d just gone two miles an hour faster, he’d likely have been successful in his attempt. "
― James A. Owen , The Dragon's Apprentice (The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica, #5)
29 " I like the sci-fi channel. Just science in general. I came across a segment on time travel and how time travel is possible. We create a spaceship that's moving at almost the speed of light, we go in that spaceship in outer space, and we fly around for a year, when we get back to Earth, Earth would've aged 10 years. "
30 " Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible. "
― Stephen Hawking , My Brief History
31 " In Einstein's equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is that it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers. So, if the river of time can be bent into a pretzel, create whirlpools and fork into two rivers, then time travel cannot be ruled out. "
32 " I distracted myself from the fear and terrorism by thinking about things like how the universe began and whether time travel is possible. "
33 " Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago. "
34 " We would go back and maybe not say that thing to our dad that we said, or maybe be a little nicer to someone who we cared about and had a relationship with when we were young. You know, they're subtle things, but we carry those with us forever. And I think that regret and time travel are intrinsically linked to me. "
35 " I find the whole time travel question very unsettling if you take it to its logical extension. I think it might eventually be possible, but then what happens? "
36 " The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics. "
37 " The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made. "
38 " Technologies that may be realized in centuries or millennium include: warp drive, traveling faster than the speed of light, parallel universes; are there other parallel dimensions and parallel realities? Time travel that we mentioned and going to the stars. "
39 " One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time. "
40 " Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read. "