John D. Barrow Short Quotes

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Things are as they are because they were as they were.

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There is a good deal more to nothing than meets the eye.

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The goal of science is to make sense of the diversity of Nature.

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We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past.

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There is no reason that the universe should be designed for our convenience.

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Ultimate explanation no longer means only a story that encompasses everything.

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Location is not, as the estate agents say, everything. We must also consider our place in history.

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Copernicus' picture did more than picture the solar system correctly: it painted a new world picture.

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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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We live in the in-between world... betwixt the "devil" of the quantum world and the "deep blue sea" of curved space.

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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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A scientist who uses only logical reasoning from 'self-evident' principles will soon find himself in a cul-de-sac - like a blind landscape artist.

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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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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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While we have no reason to expect that our position in the universe is special in every way, we would be equally misled were we to assume that it could not be special in any way.

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Scientific pictures are often not just about science. They may... have an undeniable aesthetic quality. They may even have been primarily works of art that possess a scientific message.

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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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The advent of small, inexpensive computers with superb graphics has changed the way many sciences are practiced, and the way that all sciences present the results of experiments and calculations.

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The logic of the Greeks prevents them having the idea at all and it is to the Indian cultures that we must look to find thinkers who are comfortable with the idea that Nothing might be something.

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