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9 quotes by Sean M. Carroll

Sean Michael Carroll (/ˈkærəl/; born 5 October 1966) is a senior research associate in the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. He is a theoretical cosmologist specializing in dark energy and general relativity. He has been a contributor to the physics blog Cosmic Variance, and has published in scientific journals and magazines such as Nature, Seed, Sky & Telescope, and New Scientist. He has appeared on the...
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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 grow older... →

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The particular aspect of time that I'm interested in is the arrow of time: the fact that the past is different from the future. We remember the... →

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I don't want to give advice to people about their religious beliefs, but I do think that it's not smart to bet against the power of science... →

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If our local, observable universe is embedded in a larger structure, a multiverse, then there's other places in this larger structure that have... →

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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... →

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I'm trying to understand cosmology, why the Big Bang had the properties it did. And it's interesting to think that connects directly to our... →

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I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.

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I'm trying to understand how time works. And that's a huge question that has lots of different aspects to it.

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A full understanding of what happens in our everyday lives needs to take into account what happened at the Big Bang. And not only is that... →

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