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

- Julian Barbour

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 f…

- Julian Barbour

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 landsc…

- Julian Barbour

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 instan…

- Julian Barbour

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 …

- Julian Barbour