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1 " Contemporaries only know the authority figures and the loudmouths. And the people born into power. But it takes perspective to know who's carrying the load. Nobody here has a clue who Johannes Kepler is. All they know about Galileo is that he's a teacher who got in trouble with the Inquisition. I doubt anyone's heard of Francis Bacon. Even in Britain, nobody really knows him. He's just a guy with a funny name. "
― Jack McDevitt , Time Travelers Never Die
2 " A friend is a second self. "
3 " And never forget," Michael said, "time travelers never die. No matter what you saw up ahead, about me, I'll always be here. "
4 " And, in a way, we're all time travelers. Somehow, the entire temporal stream exists, but we're only conscious of a single moment. "
5 " Time is like a river. As soon as a thing is seen, it is carried away and another takes its place, and then that other is carried away also. —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS DAVE "
6 " But, come to think of it, there was no need to wait. Time travelers don't have to wait for anybody. "