Top 30 John Barrow Quotes
#1. Any universe simple enough to be understood is too simple to produce a mind able to understand it
-Barrow's Uncertainty Principle
John D. Barrow
#3. One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance.
John Barrow
#4. There was no 'before' the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.
John D. Barrow
#5. No non-poetic account of reality can be complete.
John Myhill
#6. 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.
John D. Barrow
#7. Music is 10% exhilaration and 90% utter disappointment.
John Barrow
#8. 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.
John D. Barrow
#9. 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.
John D. Barrow
#10. What cannot be known is more revealing than what can.
John D. Barrow
#11. Prior to then it was believed that black holes were just cosmic cookie monsters, swallowing everything that came within their gravitational clutches.
John D. Barrow
#12. You only can live on adrenaline for so long; one thing is for sure, it doesn't pay the bills.
John Barrow
#13. Some things are as they are regardless of what they were.
John D. Barrow
#14. One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back down to earth with a sickening thud.
John Barrow
#15. It's not what you play but what you leave out that makes the difference.
John Barrow
#16. Nothing is higher than heaven; nothing is beyond the walls of the world; nothing is lower than hell, or more glorious than virtue.48
John D. Barrow
#18. Releasing a record is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the promotion of the product, but you have to play the game if you are to have a chance of competing in the market place.
John Barrow
#19. There is no reason that the universe should be designed for our convenience.
John D. Barrow
#20. Belize is still a pirate haven and is run more or less along the lines established centuries ago by the likes of Captain Morgan, Blackbeard, and Captain Barrow.
John McAfee
#21. People assume that because you have graced the same stage as the star act, in front of thousands, you must be reaping similar financial rewards. This is a complete fallacy.
John Barrow
#22. We are just strings of quarks living in a suburb of the local density maximum of the universe.
John D. Barrow
#23. We can never know the origins of the universe. The deepest secrets are the ones that keep themselves.
John D. Barrow
#24. If you never try, you'll never know what you are capable of.
John Barrow
#25. 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.
John D. Barrow
#26. We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past.
John D. Barrow
#27. The sciences paint an impersonal and objective account of the world, deliberately devoid of "meaning", telling us about origins and mechanics of life, by revealing nothing of the joys and sorrows of living.
John Barrow
#28. 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.
John D. Barrow
#29. To paraphrase science writer John D. Barrow ... we know they are impossible and yet we can imagine them anyway. Our brains, it turns out, are not prisoners of the world we live in; we can fly free! We can, any time we like, create the impossible.
Robert Krulwich
#30. Tycoons and barrow boys will rob you
And throw you on the side
All because they love themselves sincerely
Richard John Thompson
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