Temporal Paradox/Quotes
"on the request of your grandfather, you went back in time using a time machine made by your grandfather to kill said —anonymous
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"So...uh, don't you ever worry 'bout paradox?" |
A paradox can be paradoctored.
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"I hate time travel."
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"One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem involved in becoming your own father or mother that a broadminded and well-adjusted family can't cope with. There is also no problem about changing the course of history...the course of history does not change because it all fits together like a jigsaw. All the important changes have happened before the things they were supposed to change and it all sorts itself out in the end."
—Hitchhiker's Guide, The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe
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"No matter what, you can't die, because would mean that I would cease to exist, right? But, I was here before when I was you. I'm so confused!"
—Future You, World of Warcraft
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"See? Five minutes before I shall place it there, it is there!" |
"The best way to deal with temporal paradoxes is not to think about them."
—Captain Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager
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Dr. Emmett 'Doc' Brown: ...the encounter could create a time paradox, the result of which could cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space-time continuum and destroy the entire universe! Granted that's a worst case scenario. The destruction might in fact be very localized, limited to merely our own galaxy. —Back to The Future: Part II
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"Anyone who has not gotten a headache contemplating the paradoxes of time travel has never really understood the concept."
—Sailor Pluto, A Fistful of Omake
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Temporal Investigations agent #1: "You're not trying to claim a Predestination Paradox, are you? That you were always meant to go back in time?" —Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "Trials and Tribble-ations"
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Future Shego: Listen, we don't have a lot of time. Ok, actually, we do. Well... we will. —Kim Possible, A Sitch In Time
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"If nature abhors a vacuum, nature loathes, abominates, and despises a paradox, and I haven't much stomach for them myself."
—Augustus, Tour of the Merrimack: The Myriad
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"This next test may involve trace amounts of time travel, so, word of advice, if you meet yourself on the testing track, don't make eye contact. Lab boys tell me that'll wipe out time. Entirely. Forward and backward...."
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