John D. Barrow

“Moreover it is assumed that wormholes only join universes to baby universes, or universes to themselves; there are no wormholes joining different…

— John D. Barrow

“Yet, despite the symmetry of the laws of Nature, we observe the outcomes of those symmetrical laws to be assymetrical states and…

— John D. Barrow

“Most scientists and mathematicians operate as if Platonism is true regardless of whether they believe that it is. That is, they work…

— 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

“There are about one hundred billion galaxies within this visible universe and the average density of material within a galaxy is about…

— 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 are only certain intervals of time when life of any sort is possible in an expanding universe and we can practise…

— 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

“Navy: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision. Civilian: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees…

— John D. Barrow

“Moreover, there is no known reason why the geometry of space and time should be described by the particular types of curved…

— John D. Barrow

“I love cosmology: there’s something uplifting about viewing the entire universe as a single object with a certain shape. What entity, short…

— John D. Barrow

“This picture of matter curving space and curvaceous space dictating how matter and light will move has several striking features. It brings…

— John D. Barrow

“All we can assert with confidence is a negative: if the constants of Nature were not within one percent or so of…

— 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

“Today, a science fiction writer looking for a futuristic tale of silicon dominance would not pick upon the chemistry of silicon so…

— John D. Barrow

“Particles like protons or electrons occupy microscopic niches into which only one particle is allowed to sit. Any attempt to compress matter…

— John D. Barrow

“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

“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

“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

“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

“In the Middle Ages, this conflict between the Platonic and Aristotelian views of the relationship between mathematics and the world began to…

— John D. Barrow

“Turing attended Wittgenstein's lectures on the philosophy of mathematics in Cambridge in 1939 and disagreed strongly with a line of argument that…

— John D. Barrow

“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

“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

“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

“Universes that expand too slowly will collapse back to a big crunch before galaxies can form; universes that expand too quickly do…

— 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

“The first scientist to contemplate the significance of places where things apparently cease to exist or become infinite ('singularities' that we would…

— John D. Barrow

“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

“Since only a narrow range of the allowed values for, say, the fine structure constant will permit observers to exist in the…

— John D. Barrow

“A 'group' is simply a collection of changes which possess three simple properties: there must be the possibility of no change, there…

— John D. Barrow

“The ubiquity of chaotic phenomena raises a further problem for our dreams of omniscience through the medium of a Theory of Everything.…

— John D. Barrow

“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

“But, as powerful mathematicians like Minkowski and Hilbert found striking harmony between their pure mathematical results and the workings of the physical…

— 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

“Particle physicists are the most deeply Platonic because their entire subject is built upon a belief that the deepest workings of the…

— John D. Barrow

“There is, as we shall see, a real and precise difference between the number zero and the concept of a set that…

— 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

“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

“All the best physical theories are associated with equations which allow the continuation of data defined at present into the future, and…

— John D. Barrow