Julian Barbour Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Until you've been kissed on a rainy Parisian afternoon - you've never been kissed.

Woody Allen

#3. There a great ethnic cuisine available to you in Chicago.

Jose Garces

#4. You are the music of the spheres heard from the particular vantage point that is you.

Julian B. Barbour

#5. Henrik, you need a wife," Mama scolded him. Uncle Henrik laughed and joined Mama on the steps near the kitchen door. "Why do I need a wife, when I have a sister?

Lois Lowry

#6. 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

#7. The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.

Julian Barbour

#8. I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.

Chris Cleave

#9. 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 Barbour

#10. It's deeply humbling to realize that there is no such thing as a society with a purchase on truth.

Andrew Solomon

#11. 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

#12. The mature brain is a time capsule. History resides in its structure.

Julian B. Barbour

#13. I am originally from Florida. So Thanksgiving was always something I really looked forward to, because I got to travel back home every year and see everyone all at once, around one big happy table.

Troy Gentile

#14. Superficial people find the extraordinary fascinating, and profound people find the ordinary riveting.

Julian Barbour