Sean M. Carroll Quotes

We are looking for a complete, coherent, and simple understanding of reality. Given what we know about the universe, there seems to be no reason to invoke God as part of this description.

The world is not magic - and that's the most magical thing about it.

There is no such thing as outside the universe, as far as we can tell.

We are not important to the universe. That's the bad news.

God is not described in equations.

All the stuff we've ever seen in the laboratory, all the kinds of particles and matter and energy, that only makes up 5 percent of our universe.

The speed of time is 1 hour per hour, no matter what else is going on in the universe.

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 is literally nothing.

We are not significant on the cosmic scale.

Nothing in the fact that there was a first moment in time necessitates that an external something is required to bring the universe about at that moment.