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Quotes from Time on My Hands: My Misadventures in Time Travel — Daniel M. Kimmel

born 1955 United States

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Don’t underestimate the power of nerds with access to Internet search engines.

Time on My Hands: My Misadventures in Time Travel (2017)

I now know the answer to the riddle as to which came first, the chicken or the egg? The correct answer is, “Yes.”

Time on My Hands: My Misadventures in Time Travel (2017)

There are times when you’re incredibly sensitive and insightful. This isn’t one of them.

Time on My Hands: My Misadventures in Time Travel (2017)

As a journalist, he was used to being lied to.

Time on My Hands: My Misadventures in Time Travel (2017)

College, after all, was a place where one had most of the privileges of adulthood and very few of the responsibilities. Who wouldn’t want to stay there forever if one could?

Time on My Hands: My Misadventures in Time Travel (2017)

“Let me guess. Las Vegas had time machines as well.”
“No,” said Price, “but they had something just as troublesome: the Treasury Department.”

Time on My Hands: My Misadventures in Time Travel (2017)

I got what he was saying. It wasn’t just about crunching numbers. It was about understanding them. It was about seeing the unexpected connections.

Time on My Hands: My Misadventures in Time Travel (2017)

You’ve heard of “Rocks for Jocks,” the gimme course that departments of geology often offer? The physics department offering was called—among the faculty, anyway, “Quarks for Dorks.” Lucky me, I got to teach it.

Time on My Hands: My Misadventures in Time Travel (2017)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Daniel M. Kimmel (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.