"At that I understood. At the risk of disappointing Richardson I stayed on, waiting for The Time Traveler; waiting for the second, perhaps still stranger story, and the specimens and photographs he would bring with him. But I am beginning now to fear that I must wait a lifetime. The Time Traveler vanished three years ago. And, as everybody knows now, he has never returned." (Herbert G Wells, "The Time Machine: An Invention", 1895)
"'Upon that machine',said the Time Traveller, holding the lamp aloft, 'I intend to explore time'." (Herbert G Wells, "The Time Machine: An Invention", 1895)
"If you don’t stop this senseless theorizing upon something that’s an obvious impossibility, you’ll find yourself working alone! Your ridiculous ideas sound like the ravings of a madman. Anyone with average intelligence realizes that the mere thought of traveling through time is absurd." (L Arthur Eshbach, "Out of the Past", Tales of Wonder, 1938)
'Of all the fantastic ideas that belong to science fiction, the most remarkable - and, perhaps, the most fascinating - is that of time travel [...] Indeed, so fantastic a notion does it seem, and so many apparently obvious absurdities and bewildering paradoxes does it present, that some of the most imaginative students of science refuse to consider it as a practical proposition." (Idrisyn O Evans, "Can We Conquer Time?", Tales of Wonder, 1940)
"To my way of thinking it is precisely because time travel involves such fascinating paradoxes that we can conclude, even in the absence of other evidence, that time travel is impossible." (Isaac Asimov, 1954)
"Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem." (Michichio Kaku, Wired Magazine, 2003)
"A simple proof. If time travel is - or ever will be - possible, where are the time travelers? Every moment of history should be mobbed with them, so where are they?" (Peter Clines, "The End of the Experiment", [in J W Schnarrv (ed), "Timelines"] 2010)
"A whole new branch of science started. It’s called paradoxology. Paradoxologists study the implications of time travel. The main question they try to answer is what happened to the reality Saul Baron came from. Did it cease to exist or does it still exist parallel to this reality?" (Daliso Chaponda, "By His Sacrifice", [in J W Schnarrv (ed), "Timelines"] 2010)
"Almost every credible physicist will tell you there’s nothing in physics that says time travel can’t happen [...]" (Peter Clines, "The End of the Experiment", [in J W Schnarrv (ed), "Timelines"] 2010)
"Beneath the cylindrical brass shield was an emerald, nearly fifteen centimeters in length and precision-cut into an orthorhombic dipyramidal crystal. It was this shape, combined with the high-energy potentiality of this particular variant of beryl that made time travel possible. It had taken him ten years and most of his inheritance to find and modify the emerald." (Mark Onspaugh, "Time’s Cruel Geometry", [in J W Schnarrv (ed), "Timelines"] 2010)
"Project Boomerang was a time travel experiment, headed by Howard, which had achieved some great success. They had managed to travel only backwards in time and the traveling worked on a pre-existing displacement principle. What this meant, Howard explained, was that the traveler could only jump to a time and place where they had previously existed. The traveling version of the person would take the place in the world of the old version, with all the knowledge they had gained since that time kept intact. That is, until the boomerang effect kicked in and the traveler was pulled back to the present, whereupon the original version of the person would resume back in the past. [...] it was the first step towards full time travel, and a massive achievement. He also pointed out that the boomerang effect could be, effectively, switched off and travelers could remain in the past reliving their lives any way they wanted to." (Harper Hull," Perpetual Motion Blues", [in J W Schnarrv (ed), "Timelines"] 2010)
"Time travel’s possible, but it’s only possible in that air-turning-into-gold way." (Peter Clines, "The End of the Experiment", [in J W Schnarrv (ed), "Timelines"] 2010)
"Time travel was quite notable in its own right, and as the world turned one way, opinions turned the other." (Jacob Edwards, "Professor Figwort Comes to an Understanding", [in J W Schnarrv (ed), "Timelines"] 2010)
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