One of the tragedies of our educational system is that we've taken this incredibly interesting subject - how the universe works -… — 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… — 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… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
Nothing in the fact that there was a first moment in time necessitates that an external something is required to bring the… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
We ought to teach kids more about the Big Bang and entropy and particles. Every high school graduate should know that everything… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
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… — 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… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
The speed of time is 1 hour per hour, no matter what else is going on in the universe. — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
We are looking for a complete, coherent, and simple understanding of reality. Given what we know about the universe, there seems to… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
All the stuff we've ever seen in the laboratory, all the kinds of particles and matter and energy, that only makes up… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as outside the universe, as far as we can tell. — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
The weird thing about the arrow of time is that it's not to be found in the underlying laws of physics. It's… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
If our local, observable universe is embedded in a larger structure, a multiverse, then there's other places in this larger structure that… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
The arrow of time doesn't move forward forever. There's a phase in the history of the universe where you go from low… — 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
