“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
“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
