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“There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.”
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John D. Barrow
Source : John D. Barrow (1999). “Between Inner Space and Outer Space: Essays on Science, Art, and Philosophy”, Oxford University Press, USA
#Once Upon A Time Quotes
#Universe Quotes
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“There is no reason that the universe should be designed for our convenience.”
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John D. Barrow
#Reason Quotes
#Should Quotes
#Convenience Quotes
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“We can never know the origins of the universe. The deepest secrets are the ones that keep themselves.”
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John D. Barrow
Source : John D Barrow (2014). “The Origin Of The Universe: Science Masters Series”, p.137, Basic Books
#Secret Quotes
#Universe Quotes
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“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 atom in every cubic meter of space.”
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John D. Barrow
Source : John D Barrow (2014). “The Origin Of The Universe: Science Masters Series”, p.33, Basic Books
#Stars Quotes
#Sea Quotes
#Space Quotes
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“We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past.”
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John D. Barrow
#Past Quotes
#Foresight Quotes
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“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.”
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John D. Barrow
Source : John D Barrow (2014). “The Origin Of The Universe: Science Masters Series”, p.89, Basic Books
#Trying Quotes
#States Quotes
#Observation Quotes
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“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.”
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John D. Barrow
Source : John D Barrow (2014). “The Origin Of The Universe: Science Masters Series”, p.70, Basic Books
#Stars Quotes
#Dark Quotes
#Unseen Quotes
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“We are just strings of quarks living in a suburb of the local density maximum of the universe.”
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John D. Barrow
#Density Quotes
#Strings Quotes
#Quarks Quotes
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“Some things are as they are regardless of what they were.”
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John D. Barrow
Source : John D Barrow (2014). “The Origin Of The Universe: Science Masters Series”, p.53, Basic Books
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“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 that habitable time interval in cosmic history.”
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John D. Barrow
Source : John D. Barrow (2011). “The Book of Universes”, p.99, Random House
#Astronomy Quotes
#Expanding Quotes
#Certain Quotes
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“History is full of people who thought they were right -- absolutely right, completely right, without a shadow of a doubt. And because history never seems like history when you are living through it, it is tempting for us to think the same.”
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John D. Barrow
#Thinking Quotes
#People Quotes
#Doubt Quotes
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“Once upon a time when there was no time.”
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John D. Barrow
#Time Quotes
#Once Upon A Time Quotes
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“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 that we have adapted a religion strikingly similar to many traditional faiths. Change "mathematics" to "God" and little else might seem to change. The problem of human contact with some spiritual realm, of timelessness, of our inability to capture all with language and symbol-all have their counterparts in the quest for the nature of Platonic mathematics.”
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John D. Barrow
#God Quotes
#Spiritual Quotes
#World Quotes
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“What cannot be known is more revealing than what can.”
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John D. Barrow
Source : John D. Barrow (1999). “Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits”, p.252, Oxford University Press on Demand
#Science Quotes
#Mathematics Quotes
