Naturalism is a counterpart to theism. Theism says there's the physical world and God. Naturalism says there's only the natural world. There… — 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
I don't want to give advice to people about their religious beliefs, but I do think that it's not smart to bet… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
Someday, when the ultimate laws of physics are in our grasp, we may discover that the notion of time isn't actually essential.… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
Just the idea that we, these little collections of atoms and molecules, are part of the world, but a part that can… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
We tend to talk about the world in a myriad of ways - a microscopic world of elementary particles, a biological world… — 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
