You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgement, and to possess a large room for yourself embracing in thought the whole cosmos, to consider everlasting time, to think of the rapid change in the parts of each thing, of how short it is from birth until dissolution, and how the void before birth and that after dissolution are equally infinite. Marcus Aurelius
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This quote is by the great astronomer Johannes Kepler, who was one of the most influential physicists of all time. He was deeply influenced by the writings of the stoic philosophers. The last line of this quote says that time is not an entity, but that it is made up of infinitely small parts.

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