The fact that you can remember yesterday but not tomorrow is because of entropy. The fact that you're always born young and… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
Claims that some form of consciousness persists after our bodies die and decay into their constituent atoms face one huge, insuperable obstacle:… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
Science isn't just about solving this or that puzzle. It's about understanding how the world works: the whole world from the vastness… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
Among advocates for life after death, nobody even tries to sit down and do the hard work of explaining how the basic… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
Science is a way of getting knowledge. It's a method. It's a method that really relies on making mistakes. We propose ideas,… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
Scientifically speaking, the existence of God is an untenable hypothesis. It's not well-defined, it's completely unnecessary to fit the data, and it… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
There's no verbs before time itself exists, right? There's no popping into existence, there's no fluctuating, there's no quantum mechanical craziness, there… — 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
