Quote by 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 same symmetries…

— 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 quantum mechanical…

— 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 a collective…

— 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 so we…

— 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 all the…

— 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 life-long quest…

— 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: “A necessity…

— 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 Chapter 3.…

— John D. Barrow

“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

Once upon a time when there was no time.

— John D. Barrow