Quotes by Barbour

“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.””

“Thank You, Lord, for the incredible gift of Your presence in each and every situation I face. Allow me to remember this and to call upon Your name as I go about each day.””

“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.””

“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.””

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

“He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. Proverbs 16:32””

“I remember all the things we said we'd doAnd how not a single thing we said was true””

“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””

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