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Top 15 Julian Barbour Quotes (2025 Update)

Julian Barbour Quote: “Superficial people find the extraordinary fascinating, and profound people find the ordinary riveting.”

1. “Superficial people find the extraordinary fascinating, and profound people find the ordinary riveting.”

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Julian Barbour Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

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Julian Barbour Quote: “I regard space as a ‘glue’, or a set of rules, that binds things together. It is a plurality within a deep unity, and it makes a Now.”

3. “I regard space as a ‘glue’, or a set of rules, that binds things together. It is a plurality within a deep unity, and it makes a Now.”

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Julian Barbour Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

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Julian Barbour Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

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Julian Barbour Quote: “The mature brain is a time capsule. History resides in its structure.”

6. “The mature brain is a time capsule. History resides in its structure.”

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Julian Barbour Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

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Julian Barbour Quote: “A very good friend of mine, Michael Purser, once remarked that if my mother was the irresistible force, my father was surely the immovable object. Whatever the truth, I should not be here but for them. Being here is the supreme gift.”

8. “A very good friend of mine, Michael Purser, once remarked that if my mother was the irresistible force, my father was surely the immovable object. Whatever the truth, I should not be here but for them. Being here is the supreme gift.”

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Julian Barbour Quote: “We do not see things as they are but as the brain interprets them for us.”

9. “We do not see things as they are but as the brain interprets them for us.”

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Julian Barbour Quote: “You are the music of the spheres heard from the particular vantage point that is you.”

10. “You are the music of the spheres heard from the particular vantage point that is you.”

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Julian Barbour Quote: “The Wheeler-DeWitt equation is telling us, in its most direct interpretation, that the universe in its entirety is like some huge molecule in a stationary state and that the different possible configurations of this ‘monster molecule’ are the instants of time. Quantum cosmology become the ultimate extension of the theory of atomic structure, and simultaneously subsumes time.”

11. “The Wheeler-DeWitt equation is telling us, in its most direct interpretation, that the universe in its entirety is like some huge molecule in a stationary state and that the different possible configurations of this ‘monster molecule’ are the instants of time. Quantum cosmology become the ultimate extension of the theory of atomic structure, and simultaneously subsumes time.”

— Julian Barbour

Julian Barbour Quote: “Time is change, nothing more, nothing less.”

12. “Time is change, nothing more, nothing less.”

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Julian Barbour Quote: “Nows within this now, rather like snapshots in an album. Each Now is separate and a world unto itself, but the richly structured Nows ‘know’ about one another because they literally contain one another in certain essential respects. As consciousness surveys many things at once in one Now, it is simultaneously present, at least in part, in other Nows. This awareness of many things in one could well exist in a much more pronounced form in other places in Platonia.”

13. “Nows within this now, rather like snapshots in an album. Each Now is separate and a world unto itself, but the richly structured Nows ‘know’ about one another because they literally contain one another in certain essential respects. As consciousness surveys many things at once in one Now, it is simultaneously present, at least in part, in other Nows. This awareness of many things in one could well exist in a much more pronounced form in other places in Platonia.”

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Julian Barbour Quote: “Thus, experienced time is linear, it can be measured and it has an arrow. These are not properties of an invisible river: they belong to concrete instants. Everything we know about time is garnered from them. Time is inferred from things. NEWTON.”

14. “Thus, experienced time is linear, it can be measured and it has an arrow. These are not properties of an invisible river: they belong to concrete instants. Everything we know about time is garnered from them. Time is inferred from things. NEWTON.”

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Julian Barbour Quote: “By a time capsule, I mean any fixed pattern that creates or encodes the appearance of motion, change or history.”

15. “By a time capsule, I mean any fixed pattern that creates or encodes the appearance of motion, change or history.”

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Julian Barbour Quote: “The lesson we learned from Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo is here very relevant. They persuaded us, against what seemed to be overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that the Earth moves. They taught us to see motion where none appears. The notion of time capsules may help us to reverse that process-to see perfect stillness as the reality behind the turbulence we experience.”

16. “The lesson we learned from Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo is here very relevant. They persuaded us, against what seemed to be overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that the Earth moves. They taught us to see motion where none appears. The notion of time capsules may help us to reverse that process-to see perfect stillness as the reality behind the turbulence we experience.”

— Julian Barbour

Julian Barbour Quote: “All the instants we have experienced are other worlds, for they are not the one we are in now.”

17. “All the instants we have experienced are other worlds, for they are not the one we are in now.”

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Julian Barbour Quote: “Newton’s picture is close to everyday experience. We do not see absolute space and time, but we do see something quite like them – the rigid Earth, which defines positions, and the Sun, whose motion is a kind of clock. Newton’s revolution was the establishment of strict laws that hold in such a framework.”

18. “Newton’s picture is close to everyday experience. We do not see absolute space and time, but we do see something quite like them – the rigid Earth, which defines positions, and the Sun, whose motion is a kind of clock. Newton’s revolution was the establishment of strict laws that hold in such a framework.”

— Julian Barbour

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