Superficial people find the extraordinary fascinating, and profound people find the ordinary riveting. — Julian Barbour Copy Share Image
The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains. — Julian Barbour Brains Copy Share Image
“You are the music of the spheres heard from the particular vantage point that is you.” — Julian Barbour Music Copy Share Image
“By a time capsule, I mean any fixed pattern that creates or encodes the appearance of motion, change or history.” — Julian Barbour Change Copy Share Image
“conscious states somehow reflect physical states in the brain. Put in its crudest form, a brain scientist who knew the state of… — Julian Barbour Consciousness Copy Share Image
My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes.… — Julian Barbour Change Copy Share Image
What really intrigues me is that the totality of all possible Nows of any definite kind has a very special structure. You… — Julian Barbour Country Copy Share Image
“somehow seems appropriate here: ‘If the end of the world is nigh, it is time to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes to… — Julian Barbour End of the world Copy Share Image
If nothing happened, if nothing changed, time would stop. For time is nothing but change. It is change we see occurring all… — Julian Barbour Change Copy Share Image
“Thus, experienced time is linear, it can be measured and it has an arrow. These are not properties of an invisible river:… — Julian Barbour Clock Copy Share Image
“The higher we climb, the more comprehensive the view. Each new vantage point yields a better understanding of the interconnection of things.… — Julian Barbour Copy Share Image
There are things that I would say that you could call an instant of time; or better, a now. As we live… — Julian Barbour Copy Share Image
“The chain from cause to effects may be quite long and take surprising forms, but a cause there must be. It is… — Julian Barbour Awareness Copy Share Image
“Interestingly, consciousness and understanding are always tied to a short time span, which was called the specious present by the philosopher and… — Julian Barbour Consciousness Copy Share Image
