Julian Barbour quotes
-
“My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.”
-- Julian Barbour -
“There are things that I would say that you could call an instant of time; or better, a now. As we live we seem to move through a succession of instants of time, nows, and the question is, what are they? There are where everything in the universe is at this moment, now.”
-- Julian Barbour -
“What really intrigues me is that the totality of all possible Nows of any definite kind has a very special structure. You can think of it as a landscape or country. Each point in the country is a Now.”
-- Julian BarbourSource : "The End of Time". Interview with John Brockman, www.edge.org. August 15, 1999.
-
“If nothing happened, if nothing changed, time would stop. For time is nothing but change. It is change we see occurring all around us, not time. In fact, time doesn't exist.”
-- Julian Barbour -
-
“Superficial people find the extraordinary fascinating, and profound people find the ordinary riveting.”
-- Julian Barbour
-
“But time passes. Fear becomes a memory. Terror becomes routine; it loses its grip.”
-
“Time passes. That's for sure.”
Source : Eileen Myles (2016). “Chelsea Girls”, p.93, Serpent's Tail
-
“Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it.”
Source : "Marc Bolan: 'I am the Cosmic Dancer who dances his way out of the womb' - a classic interview from the vaults". Interview with Keith Altham, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2012.
You may also like:
-
Carlo Rovelli
Writer -
David Deutsch
Physicist -
Ernst Mach
Physicist -
Hugh Everett III
Physicist -
John Archibald Wheeler
Physicist -
Lee Smolin
Physicist -
Max Tegmark
Professor -
Paul Davies
Physicist -
Roger Penrose
Physicist -
Sean M. Carroll
Scientist -
J. M. E. McTaggart
Metaphysician