“Life ends, and that's part of what makes it special. What exists is here, in front of us, what we can see and touch and affect. Our lives are not dress rehearsals in which we plan and are tested in… — Sean Carroll Copy Share Image
“Nothingness, after all, is simpler than any one particular existing thing ever could be; there is only one nothing, and many kinds of something.” — Sean Carroll Copy Share Image
“Christopher Savage have calculated that in reasonable models, we expect about ten dark-matter particles to interact with the atoms in a typical human body… — Sean Carroll Copy Share Image
“The move from description to prescription, from saying what happens to passing judgment on what should happen, is a creative one, a fundamentally human… — Sean Carroll Copy Share Image
“Science and religion both make claims about the fundamental workings of the universe. Although these claims are not a priori incompatible (we could imagine… — Sean Carroll Copy Share Image
“Then we compare the predicted abundance of such a WIMP with the actual abundance of dark matter.” — Sean Carroll Copy Share Image
“This is not a universe that is advancing toward a goal; it is one that is caught in the grip of an unbreakable pattern.” — Sean Carroll Copy Share Image
“an elegant mechanism emerges: a broken symmetry, hidden from our view by a field pervading space.” — Sean Carroll Copy Share Image
“Part of the sting was taken away when the American Physical Society awarded its 2010 Sakurai Prize in theoretical physics to Hagen, Englert, Guralnik,… — Sean Carroll Copy Share Image
“We are part of the universe that has developed a remarkable ability: We can hold an image of the world in our minds. We… — Sean Carroll Copy Share Image
“If our lives are brief and undirected, at least we can take pride in our mutual courage as we struggle to understand things much… — Sean Carroll Copy Share Image
“Where misunderstanding dwells, misuse will not be far behind. No theory in the history of science has been more misused and abused by cranks… — Sean Carroll Copy Share Image
“What started the ball rolling was a psychological conviction: the idea that something as horrible as these infant deaths couldn't just be random: someone… — Sean Carroll Copy Share Image
