“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite.” — Paul Dirac

“I stopped being afraid because I read the truth, and that’s the scientifical truth, which is much better. You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.” — Björk

“Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love you, tomorrow. You’re only a day away.”

“If not tomorrow, then the day after that.”

Does it show that I procrastinate a lot?

Where do you find all these quotes? The one from Shaw seems especially relevant if you’re talking about Poincare’s recurrence theorem or something similar.

Do you just have encyclopedic knowledge? Or happened to write down every relevant quote you encountered in your life?

I’m sure there are some good quotes from Lewis Carroll

Alice sighed wearily. ‘I think you might do something better with the time,’ she said, ‘than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers.’

‘If you knew Time as well as I do,’ said the Hatter, ‘you wouldn’t talk about wasting IT. It’s HIM.’

‘I don’t know what you mean,’ said Alice.

‘Of course you don’t!’ the Hatter said, tossing his head contemptuously. ‘I dare say you never even spoke to Time!’

‘Perhaps not,’ Alice cautiously replied: ‘but I know I have to beat time when I learn music.’

‘Ah! that accounts for it,’ said the Hatter. ‘He won’t stand beating. Now, if you only kept on good terms with him, he’d do almost anything you liked with the clock. For instance, suppose it were nine o’clock in the morning, just time to begin lessons: you’d only have to whisper a hint to Time, and round goes the clock in a twinkling! Half-past one, time for dinner!’

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Time – he’s waiting in the wings
He speaks of senseless things
His script is you and me, boy

Time – he flexes like a whore
Falls wanking to the floor
His trick is you and me, boy

Time – in quaaludes and red wine
Demanding billy dolls
And other friends of mine
Take your time

(originally from the poem “Calmly We Walk Through This April’s Day” by Delmore Schwartz)

“All of cosmology’s missing mass can be explained by people who lie about their weight.” — R. Knop, 1989, back when there still *was* “missing mass”.

“Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and [Time]” — Simon & Garfunkel (with bonus Oxford comma)

“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,” –Macbeth, Macbeth