John Barrow
John Barrow
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth31 October 1955
CountryUnited States of America
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One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance.
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He gets an A-plus on the big-business-friendly test. In fact, he's the teacher's pet,
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I think the district belongs to the voters who live there and vote there, ... I'm too busy doing the job I was elected to do to focus too much on an election that's over a year away.
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Infinity is a player of great significance who appears on the stage only when the crucial questions of existence are raised. Infinity offers its services when we seek to know if the Universe began or whether it will ever end, whether life will always be part of its landscape, and whether there are tasks which can never be accomplished. Infinity challenges us to contemplate the duplication of ourselves and all that we hold dear, and to ponder the cogency of all possibilities, potential and actual. It undermines our sense of the precious by suggesting a randomly infinite universe will eventually conjure up the works of Shakespeare, somewhere, as if created by a regiment of monkeys armed with typewriters. Infinity also seeks to guard us from taking the wrong path in our quest to unravel the deepest of Nature's secrets about the ultimate structure of mass and energy.