John D. Barrow Quotes

• No hubo un "antes" del comienzo de nuestro universo, porque antaño no había tiempo.

  John D. Barrow

  Once Upon A Time, Universe

  John D Barrow (2014). “The Origin Of The Universe: Science Masters Series”, p.59, Hachette UK

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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.

  John D. Barrow

  God, Spiritual, Littles

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• Normalmente se definiría una "religión" como un sistema de ideas que contiene afirmaciones que no pueden demostrarse lógica u observacionalmente... El teorema de Gödels no sólo demuestra que la matemática es una religión, ¡sino que las matemáticas son la única religión que demuestra serlo!

  John D. Barrow

  Ideas, Mathematics, Prove It

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• What cannot be known is more revealing than what can.

  John D. Barrow

  Science, Mathematics, Revealing

  John D. Barrow (1999). “Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits”, p.252, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Once upon a time when there was no time.

  John D. Barrow

  Time, Once Upon A Time

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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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  Pensamiento, Gente, Duda

  John D. Barrow (1992). “Pi in the sky: counting, thinking, and being”, Oxford University Press, USA

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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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  Density, Strings, Quarks

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

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  Reason, Should, Convenience

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• Si todas las estrellas y galaxias del universo actual se convirtieran en un mar uniforme de átomos, sólo habría un átomo por cada metro cúbico de espacio.

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  Stars, Space, Sea

  John D Barrow (2014). “The Origin Of The Universe: Science Masters Series”, p.33, Basic Books

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• Some things are as they are regardless of what they were.

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  John D Barrow (2014). “The Origin Of The Universe: Science Masters Series”, p.53, Basic Books

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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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  Trying, States, Observation

  John D Barrow (2014). “The Origin Of The Universe: Science Masters Series”, p.89, Basic Books

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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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  Secret, Knows, Universe

  John D Barrow (2014). “The Origin Of The Universe: Science Masters Series”, p.137, Basic Books

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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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  Stars, Dark, Unseen

  John D Barrow (2014). “The Origin Of The Universe: Science Masters Series”, p.70, 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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  Expanding Universe, Astronomy, Certain

  John D. Barrow (2011). “The Book of Universes”, p.99, Random House

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

  John D. Barrow

  Past, Foresight, Knows

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• Érase una vez el Tiempo.

  John D. Barrow

  Érase una vez

  John D. Barrow (1999). “Between Inner Space and Outer Space: Essays on Science, Art, and Philosophy”, Oxford University Press, USA

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