Time Travel Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old time travel quotes, time travel sayings, and time travel proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Time travel is a philosophical concept, not a scientific one. It is, in fact, as has been pointed out, scientific nonsense. Alexei Panshin
Time travel is only a little less confusing than wives. Ranvir Shorey
Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone. Frances Mayes
Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time. Jerzy Kosinski
Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. Jim Bishop
Man, can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drfit along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way. H.G. Wells
If you chose to embark on time travel, you could put together a stunning itinerary. You might meet historical figures such as Buddha, Muhammad, or Moses. J. Richard Gott
We seem free to move around in space at will, but in time we are like helpless rafters in a mighty stream, propelled into the future at the rate of one second per second. J. Richard Gott
The idea of time travel gained prominence through Well's wonderful novel. Most remarkable is his treatment of time as a fourth dimension, which anticipates Einstein's use of the concept ten years later. J. Richard Gott
A time traveler who visits the past is just someone whose world line somehow loops back in time, where it could even intersect itself. J. Richard Gott
In general, if one wished to calculate the probability of a certain outcome, one had to consider all possible world histories that could lead up to it. Richard Freyman
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Albert Einstein
The truth is, time travel is hard, and people are lazy. Margaret Peterson Haddix
What would happen if history could be rewritten as casually as erasing a blackboard? Our past would be like the shifting sands at the seashore, constantly blown this way or that by the slightest breeze. History would be constantly changing every time someone spun the dial of a time machine and blundered his or her way into the past. History, as we know it, would be impossible. It would cease to exist. Michio Kaku
Time travel would mean that any historical event could never be completely resolved. History books could never be written. Michio Kaku
If time travel is a one-way process forward, there is no way we can know. J.H. Brennan
A worm hole means you can travel in space, but not in time, or travel in time but not in space. J.H. Brennan
A possible way to reconcile time travel with the fact that we don't seem to have had any visitors from the future would be to say that such travel can occur only in the future. Stephen Hawking
In some histories space-time will be so warped that objects like rockets will be able to travel into their pasts. Stephen Hawking
Space is being conquered by man while man is being conquered by time. Evan Esar
Time is a stream running only in one line, or as mathematicians say, in one dimension. Alfred Naylor Pearson
Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. Susan Strehle
If you can bend space you can bend time also, and if you knew enough and could move faster than light you could travel backward in time and exist in two places at once. Susan Strehle
Time travel seems now like one of the most radical of science fiction notions, in the sense that it remains unreachable. James Gleick
Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem. Michio Kaku
Physicists schooled in Newton's law believed that time moved along a straight, steady course, like a speeding arrow. Michio Kaku
Most physicists believed the clocked ticked in only one direction. While moving faster than the speed of light could, according to Einstein's equations, reverse time's arrow. Michio Kaku
Mass and energy act on space-time like a rock thrown into a pond: the bigger the rock, the bigger the ripples. Van Stokum
If time travel ever became widespread, English grammar was going to have to add a whole new set of tenses to describe reflexive situations -- conjugations that would make the French literary tenses and the Latin historical tenses look simple. Robert A. Heinlein
I can't turn back the clock on what happened. Well, maybe if I were time travelling. Lana Ayers