John D. Barrow Quotes
- There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.
- All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and so we find…
- Once upon a time when there was no time.
- History is full of people who thought they were right -- absolutely right, completely right, without a shadow of a doubt. And because history never…
- There are only certain intervals of time when life of any sort is possible in an expanding universe and we can practise astronomy only during…
- Some things are as they are regardless of what they were.
- We are just strings of quarks living in a suburb of the local density maximum of the universe.
- Apparently, a great deal of dark, unseen material exists, whose gravitational pull is responsible for the motions of the stars and galaxies that we see.
- When we try to observe things that are very small, the act of observation itself will significantly disturb the state we are seeking to measure.
- We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past.
- If all the stars and galaxies in the universe today were smoothed out into a uniform sea of atoms, there would only be about one…
- We can never know the origins of the universe. The deepest secrets are the ones that keep themselves.
- There is no reason that the universe should be designed for our convenience.