Julian Barbour Quotes

That passed the time. It would have passed in any case. Yes, but not so rapidly.

Time is the product of changing realities, beings, existences.

The future is an infinite succession of presents.

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.

We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.

Time doesn't go. Time stays. We go.

True time is four-dimensional.

Time is not an absolute reality but an aspect of our consciousness.

We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it.

The now, the here, through which all future plunges into the past.

When you are in the future, the past looks different.

There can be neither today without yesterday nor tomorrow without today.

Is time our invention, or is time a real thing... I realize we're measuring it, but in the cosmic scheme of things, is there really time?

Time is not a road - it is a room.

Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

Every moment is all the things that have happened before and all the things that are going to happen, and...the way all those things look at one point on their way along a line.

Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.

Time neither moves nor is stationary. Time changes.

Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.

what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.