Julian Barbour

"[[Symbols|[S]ymbols]] have no meaning if divorced from the entities that they represent."

"Richard Feynman... said, "Time is what happens when nothing else does." ...[T]hats ...not the right way to think about time."

"There is one metalaw of science: it cannot exist without structured things. d variety is the ground of being. That is what gives content to both science and life."

"Consider the example of a time capsule... geologists... establish[ed] detailed correlations between the structure of fossils and rocks... They concluded... an immense , vastly longer than the bible-deduced... 6000 years. They explained... a long process... in accordance with... laws of nature. They discovered ... and... present evidence for it extends today... to all branches of science, especially cosmology and genetics."

"I find no reason to reverse the standard assumption of physics... what we experience can be explained by the assumption of an external world governed by law."

"If you could look microscopically... at... my molecules... you would not recognize me from one second to another. In my body, every second, one hundred million million million... hemoglobin molecules... is destroyed, and the same number is created. So... at each split second, Im really a very different person."