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title: "2 Egg Quotes By Sean M. Carroll"
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> [If you find an egg in your refrigerator, you're not surprised. You don't say, 'Wow, that's a low-entropy configuration. That's unusual,' because you know that the egg is not alone in the universe. It came out of a chicken, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sean-m-carroll/if-you-find-an-egg-in-your-refrigerator-you-re-not-surprised-you-don/)

[Sean M. Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sean-m-carroll/)

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> [The particular aspect of time that I'm interested in is the arrow of time: the fact that the past is different from the future. We remember the past but we don't remember the future. There are irreversible processes. There are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sean-m-carroll/the-particular-aspect-of-time-that-i-m-interested-in-is-the-arrow-of/)

[Sean M. Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sean-m-carroll/)

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## Other authors on Egg

## More by Sean M. Carroll

> [I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sean-m-carroll/i-m-a-big-believer-that-science-is-part-of-a-larger-cultural-thing/)

[Sean M. Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sean-m-carroll/)

> [One of the tragedies of our educational system is that we've taken this incredibly interesting subject - how the universe works - and made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sean-m-carroll/one-of-the-tragedies-of-our-educational-system-is-that-we-ve-taken/)

[Sean M. Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sean-m-carroll/)

> [I've loved physics from a young age, but I've also been interested in all sorts of big questions, from philosophy to evolution and neuroscience.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sean-m-carroll/i-ve-loved-physics-from-a-young-age-but-i-ve-also-been-interested-in/)

[Sean M. Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sean-m-carroll/)

> [The simplest way out of the puzzle of time travel is to say that it can't be done. That's very likely the right answer.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sean-m-carroll/the-simplest-way-out-of-the-puzzle-of-time-travel-is-to-say-that-it/)

[Sean M. Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sean-m-carroll/)

> [Our conviction that green cheese makes up a negligible fraction of the Moon's interior comes not from direct observation but from the gross incompatibility…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sean-m-carroll/our-conviction-that-green-cheese-makes-up-a-negligible-fraction-of/)

[Sean M. Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sean-m-carroll/)

> [We are not important to the universe. That's the bad news.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sean-m-carroll/we-are-not-important-to-the-universe-that-s-the-bad-news/)

[Sean M. Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sean-m-carroll/)

> [The fact that you can remember yesterday but not tomorrow is because of entropy. The fact that you're always born young and then you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sean-m-carroll/the-fact-that-you-can-remember-yesterday-but-not-tomorrow-is-because/)

[Sean M. Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sean-m-carroll/)

> [As we get older, we tend to grow quite fond of the planets of belief we have constructed for ourselves. We build elaborate defense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sean-m-carroll/as-we-get-older-we-tend-to-grow-quite-fond-of-the-planets-of-belief/)

[Sean M. Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sean-m-carroll/)

> [If time travel were possible, you still wouldn't be able to change the past - it's already happened!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sean-m-carroll/if-time-travel-were-possible-you-still-wouldn-t-be-able-to-change-the/)

[Sean M. Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sean-m-carroll/)

> [We seek an understanding of the laws of nature and of our particular universe in which everything makes sense to us. We do not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sean-m-carroll/we-seek-an-understanding-of-the-laws-of-nature-and-of-our-particular/)

[Sean M. Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sean-m-carroll/)

> [People don't realize how many aspects of our lives are touched in one way or another by not just the discoveries, the technological breakthroughs,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sean-m-carroll/people-don-t-realize-how-many-aspects-of-our-lives-are-touched-in-one/)

[Sean M. Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sean-m-carroll/)

> [Something can be real - actually existing, not merely illusory - and yet not be fundamental. Scientists used to think that heat, for example,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sean-m-carroll/something-can-be-real-actually-existing-not-merely-illusory-and-yet/)

[Sean M. Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sean-m-carroll/)

> [Claims that some form of consciousness persists after our bodies die and decay into their constituent atoms face one huge, insuperable obstacle: the laws…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sean-m-carroll/claims-that-some-form-of-consciousness-persists-after-our-bodies-die/)

[Sean M. Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sean-m-carroll/)

> [Even in empty space, time and space still exist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sean-m-carroll/even-in-empty-space-time-and-space-still-exist/)

[Sean M. Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sean-m-carroll/)

> [The idea that time is an illusion is an old one, predating any Times Square ball drop or champagne celebrations. It reaches back to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sean-m-carroll/the-idea-that-time-is-an-illusion-is-an-old-one-predating-any-times/)

[Sean M. Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sean-m-carroll/)

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