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Quotes from The Book of Universes: Exploring the Limits of the Cosmos — John D. Barrow

1952–2020 England

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This may be the low-impact evolutionary path you need to follow in order to survive into the far, far future.

The Book of Universes: Exploring the Limits of the Cosmos (2011)

Just focusing on what exists now seems a bit exclusive.

The Book of Universes: Exploring the Limits of the Cosmos (2011)

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.

The Book of Universes: Exploring the Limits of the Cosmos (2011)

Location is not, as the estate agents say, everything. We must also consider our place in history.

The Book of Universes: Exploring the Limits of the Cosmos (2011)

Continual miniaturisation allows resources to be conserved, efficiency to be increased, pollution to be reduced, and the remarkable flexibilities of the quantum world to be tapped.

The Book of Universes: Exploring the Limits of the Cosmos (2011)

While we have no reason to expect that our position in the universe is special in every way, we would be equally misled were we to assume that it could not be special in any way.

The Book of Universes: Exploring the Limits of the Cosmos (2011)

Einstein showed us how to find all the possible universes that were consistent with the laws of physics and the character of gravity, how to reconstruct their pasts and predict their futures. But actually finding them was no easy task.

The Book of Universes: Exploring the Limits of the Cosmos (2011)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John D. Barrow (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.