4,591 Quotes About Past

When I get bored, or get stuck on an equation, I like to go ice skating, but it makes you forget your problem. Then you can tackle the problem with a fresh new insight. Einstein liked to play the violin to relax. Every physicist likes to have a past time. Mine is ice skating.

It would take a civilization far more advanced than ours, unbelievably advanced, to begin to manipulate negative energy to create gateways to the past. But if you could obtain large quantities of negative energy-and that's a big "IF"-then you could create a time machine that apparently obeys Einstein's equation and perhaps the laws of quantum theory.

The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

The fact that we all have broken pasts is something that I'm very attracted to, along with being able to turn your life around and do good with it.

Robert Redford ... has turned almost alarmingly blond-he's gone past platinum, he must be into plutonium; his hair is coordinated with his teeth.

A snarky but accurate description of monetary policy over the past five years is that the Federal Reserve successfully replaced the technology bubble with a housing bubble

Most work in macroeconomics in the past 30 years has been useless at best and harmful at worst.

In the past I was a little more career-oriented and really thinking that being the breadwinner was enough to be a husband. But there really is a lot more to it than that.

People talk philosophically, Oh, I don't want to live past 100.' You know, I'd like to hear them say that when they're 99.