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Scientific pictures are often not just about science. (John D. Barrow)
Parmenides' influential arguments against the concept of empty space. View quote
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It is enigma enough that the world is described by mathematics; but by simple mathematics, of the sort that a few years energetic study now produces familiarity with, this is an enigma within an enigma. View quote
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Location is not, as the estate agents say, everything. We must also consider our place in history. View quote
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It is not hard to see why the Eastern holistic perspective made scientific progress so difficult. It denies the intuition that one can study the parts of the world in isolation from the rest-that one can analyze the world... View quote
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If we used our discriminatory power to full, we could generate an undulating sea of sound that displayed continuously changing frequency rather like the undersea sonic songs of dolphins and whales. View quote
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What had stopped them both in their tracks was Gamow's suggestion that the laws of physics could describe something being created out of nothing. View quote
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The living world is not a marble palace. It is a higgledy-piggledy outcome of natural selection and the competition between many interacting factors. The outcome is often neither elegant nor symmetrical. View quote
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Aristotle believed that the world did not come into being at some time in the past; it had always existed and it would always exist, unchanged in essence for ever. He placed a high premium on symmetry. View quote
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John D. Barrow

John D. Barrow - Image
Photo: Festival della Scienza, Cirone-Musi, CC BY-SA 2.0
Occupation: English Scientist
Born: November 29, 1952
Died: September 26, 2020
Quotes count: 59

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