Claims that some form of consciousness persists after our bodies die and decay into their constituent atoms face one huge, insuperable obstacle: the laws of physics underlying everyday life are completely understood, and there's no way within those laws to… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
The asymmetry of time, the arrow that points from past to future, plays an unmistakable role in our everyday lives: it accounts for why we cannot turn an omelet into an egg, why ice cubes never spontaneously unmelt in a… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself. — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
One of the tragedies of our educational system is that we've taken this incredibly interesting subject - how the universe works - and made… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
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.… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
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.… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
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… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
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… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
As we get older, we tend to grow quite fond of the planets of belief we have constructed for ourselves. We build elaborate defense… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
If time travel were possible, you still wouldn't be able to change the past - it's already happened! — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
We seek an understanding of the laws of nature and of our particular universe in which everything makes sense to us. We do not… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
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,… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
Something can be real - actually existing, not merely illusory - and yet not be fundamental. Scientists used to think that heat, for example,… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
