John D. Barrow

“One of Nature's deep secrets is the fact that the outcomes of the laws of Nature do not have to possess the…

— John D. Barrow

“The effect of the 'time becomes space' proposal is that there is no definite moment or point of creation. In more conventional…

— John D. Barrow

“Humans are distinguished further by the highly effective way in which they have pooled the individual intelligence of single individuals to produce…

— John D. Barrow

We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past.

— John D. Barrow

All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and…

— John D. Barrow

“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

“Each of us is a complicated assymetrical outcome of the laws of electromagnetism and gravity.”

— John D. Barrow

“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

“Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, who died in 1965, wrote of how the mere thought of the infinite led him to contemplate suicide:…

— John D. Barrow

“As we look way back into the first instants of the Big Bang, we find the quantum world that we described in…

— John D. Barrow

“The inclusion of just one contradiction (like 0 = 1) in an axiomatic system allows any statement about the objects in the…

— John D. Barrow

Once upon a time when there was no time.

— John D. Barrow

“Life as we know, and partially understand it, is a classical example of what can occur when a sufficient level of complexity…

— John D. Barrow

“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

History is full of people who thought they were right -- absolutely right, completely right, without a shadow of a doubt. And…

— John D. Barrow

“The inflationary period of expansion does not smooth out irregularity by entropy-producing processes like those explored by the cosmologies of the seventies.…

— John D. Barrow

“The ease with which collaboration occurs in mathematical research and the essential similarity of the fruits of such collaboration to that of…

— John D. Barrow

One would normally define a "religion" as a system of ideas that contain statements that cannot be logically or observationally demonstrated... Gödels…

— John D. Barrow

“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

“The universe appears to be a system of very low density wherever we look. This is no accident. The expansion of the…

— John D. Barrow

“Non-Euclidean' became a byword for non-absolute knowledge. It also served to illustrate most vividly the gap between mathematics and the natural world.…

— John D. Barrow

“The brain is the most effective algorithmic compressor of information that we have so far encountered in Nature. It reduces complex sequences…

— John D. Barrow

“Anselm conceives of God as something than which nothing greater or more perfect can be conceived. Since this idea arises in our…

— John D. Barrow

“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

Apparently, a great deal of dark, unseen material exists, whose gravitational pull is responsible for the motions of the stars and galaxies…

— John D. Barrow