Life Quote by Sean Carroll

““Life is a process, not a substance, and it is necessarily temporary. We are not the reason for the existence of the universe, but our ability for self-awareness and reflection makes us special within it. This””

Sean Carroll

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“Nothingness, after all, is simpler than any one particular existing thing ever could be; there is only one nothing, and many kinds of something.”

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“Christopher Savage have calculated that in reasonable models, we expect about ten dark-matter particles to interact with the atoms in a typical human body…

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“The move from description to prescription, from saying what happens to passing judgment on what should happen, is a creative one, a fundamentally human…

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“Science and religion both make claims about the fundamental workings of the universe. Although these claims are not a priori incompatible (we could imagine…

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“Then we compare the predicted abundance of such a WIMP with the actual abundance of dark matter.”

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“This is not a universe that is advancing toward a goal; it is one that is caught in the grip of an unbreakable pattern.”

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“an elegant mechanism emerges: a broken symmetry, hidden from our view by a field pervading space.”

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“Part of the sting was taken away when the American Physical Society awarded its 2010 Sakurai Prize in theoretical physics to Hagen, Englert, Guralnik,…

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“We are part of the universe that has developed a remarkable ability: We can hold an image of the world in our minds. We…

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“If our lives are brief and undirected, at least we can take pride in our mutual courage as we struggle to understand things much…

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“Where misunderstanding dwells, misuse will not be far behind. No theory in the history of science has been more misused and abused by cranks…

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“What started the ball rolling was a psychological conviction: the idea that something as horrible as these infant deaths couldn't just be random: someone…

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