"Clocks offer at best a convenient fiction, he says. They imply that time ticks steadily, predictably forward, when our experience shows that time often does the opposite: it stretches and compresses, skips a beat and doubles back."
"How much of what we perceive exists outside of us and how much is a product of our minds?"
"'What if we were to land on a planet with aliens who live at a different time scale from us?' he asked me at one point. 'Would we seem like statues to them the way trees do to us?'"
"Time and memory are so tightly intertwined that they may be impossible to tease apart."
"I'm just celebrating the vastness of our ignorance."
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