“There is no formula that can deliver all truth, all harmony, all simplicity. No Theory of Everything can ever provide total insight.… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“It is the cosmological vacuum energy that contributes a repulsive lambda force to the gravitational force of Newton.” — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“Newton, as we have said, was the promoter of a Design Argument based upon the precision and universality of the laws of… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“Prior to then it was believed that black holes were just cosmic cookie monsters, swallowing everything that came within their gravitational clutches.” — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“For even if we expunged all the matter in the Universe the lambda force could still exist, causing the universe to expand… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“Science is predicated upon the belief that the Universe is algorithmically compressible and the modern search for a Theory of Everything is… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“We can measure the fine structure constant with very great precision, but so far none of our theories has provided an explanation… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“Gravity acts on all forms of mass and energy, but energy comes in a host of very different forms that behave in… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“If the deep logic of what determines the value of the fine-structure constant also played a significant role in our understanding of… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“The phenomenon of symmetry breaking reveals something deeply significant about the workings of the universe. The laws of Nature are unerringly symmetrical.… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“Fitzgerald had noticed that if this sqrt(I-v^2/c^2) correction factor was applied to the analysis of Michelson's apparatus fixed on the earth's surface… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“String theory promises to take a further step beyond that taken by Einstein's picture of force subsumed within curved space and time… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“For many years, cosmologists have sought, with little success, some fundamental principle which would reveal why the cosmological constant mist be zero.… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“Impressed by the success of high-level mathematics in the formulation of the general theory of relativity in 1915, we find that Einstein's… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“Three laws governing black hole changes were thus found, but it was soon noticed that something unusual was going on. If one… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“The deep significance of this discovery appears to be that we have found a physical situation where two different natural principles, of… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“Curiously, Schrodinger's equation describes the change in the probability that we will obtain a particular result if we conduct an experiment. It… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“This 'Planck length' is the only quantity with the dimensions of a length that can be built from the three mist fundamental… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“The great unanswered question is whether there exists some undiscovered organizing principle which complements the known laws of Nature and dictates the… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“Strings possess one defining property which is their tension. This quantity plays a crucial role in the overall picture of how strings… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“Then, in 1974, Stephen Hawking made a dramatic discovery. He decided to examine for the forst time what occurs when one applies… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“At first, one might think that something like thermodynamics is a rather restrictive concept because it concerns itself with temperature and heat.… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“First, energy is quantised: in atoms it does not take on all possible values but only a ladder of specific values whose… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“The success of discovering a thermodynamic principle associated with the gravitational field of a black hole has led to a speculation that… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“In a Newtonian world, all physical quantities, like energy and spin, can take on any values whatsoever. They range over the entire… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“When one looks at the numbers, the situation becomes even more perplexing. The effect of lambda grows steadily with respect to the… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“When an important change takes place in science, in which a new theory takes the stagw, the incoming theory is generally an… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“All our puzzles about whether or not lambda exists and, if so, what is responsible for giving it such a strange value,… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“One of the most striking properties of the visible universe is the preponderance of matter over antimatter. Although particle accelerators produce matter… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“One of Nature's deep secrets is the fact that the outcomes of the laws of Nature do not have to possess the same symmetries… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“The effect of the 'time becomes space' proposal is that there is no definite moment or point of creation. In more conventional quantum mechanical… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“Humans are distinguished further by the highly effective way in which they have pooled the individual intelligence of single individuals to produce a collective… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past. — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and so we… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“If the deep logic of what determines the value of the fine-structure constant also played a significant role in our understanding of all the… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“Each of us is a complicated assymetrical outcome of the laws of electromagnetism and gravity.” — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“Impressed by the success of high-level mathematics in the formulation of the general theory of relativity in 1915, we find that Einstein's life-long quest… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, who died in 1965, wrote of how the mere thought of the infinite led him to contemplate suicide: “A necessity… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“As we look way back into the first instants of the Big Bang, we find the quantum world that we described in Chapter 3.… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“The inclusion of just one contradiction (like 0 = 1) in an axiomatic system allows any statement about the objects in the system to… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
