Our idea of the universe as a whole remains a product of the imagination. - Gerald James Whitrow

[Time is not] a mysterious illusion of the intellect. ..It is an essential feature of the universe.

As the degree of observational accuracy at which general relativity becomes significantly different from Newtonian theory is far from being achieved in this field, and as stellar velocities are small compared with light, there is no sign yet that any non-Newtonian theory is required.

Our conscious appreciation of the fact that one event follows another is of a different kind from our awareness of either event separately. If two events are to be represented as occurring in succession, then—paradoxically—they must also be thought of simultaneously.