earth's shifting tectonic plates

 

Here.

origin and fate of the universe

old

 

Born 69 BCE, Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the mobile phone in 1973 than to the construction of the pyramids circa 2780 BCE. 

a waste of time

"The juice isn't worth the squeeze."

patience

“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
– Warren Buffett

tempus fugit

"Art is the attempt to preserve imagination against time."

Tik Toc

"Too old soon; too late smart."
- German aphorism

ceaseless motion

"Marine limestone."
- Stephen Jay Gould on Mount Everest where the bottom became the top.

grim reaper

"Time takes everyone out. It's undefeated."

"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."

- Jean-Paul Satre

"The world will be here with or without us, until the sun dies, 5 billion years hence. At that point, the sun's atmosphere will have expanded to engulf the entire orbits of Mercury, Venus and Earth, which will have become charred embers spiraling, one by one, to the crucible that is the sun's core."
 - Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist, American Museum of Natural History

Image source here.

A day on the moon and a year on the moon are the same thing.

essence

"All human endeavour is killing time. All of it."
- Jerry Seinfeld

point of view

"Each generation gets better looking."
- Larry David

"The distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion no matter how persistent."
- Einstein

Time Travel

A website that allows you to pick a date and travel there via video:

http://yttm.tv/v/1970

the farthest ever seen

Dali

"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."
- Salvador Dali [1904-1989]