“We seek an understanding of the laws of nature and of our particular universe in which everything makes sense to us. We do not want to be reduced to accepting the strange features of our universe as brute facts.” WantFactsLawUniverseUnderstandingAcceptingParticularStrangeMake SenseFeaturesLaws Of NatureBrutes Author:Sean M. Carroll
“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.” FirstsMomentsFactsUniverseThat MomentMoments In Time Author:Sean M. Carroll
“The speed of time is 1 hour per hour, no matter what else is going on in the universe.” MatterUniverseHoursNo Matter WhatSpeed Author:Sean M. Carroll
“There is no such thing as outside the universe, as far as we can tell.” Universe Author:Sean M. Carroll
“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.” KindMatterUniverseEnergyStuffPercentParticlesLaboratoryMatter And Energy Author:Sean M. Carroll
“We are not important to the universe. That's the bad news.” ImportantUniverseNewsBad News Author:Sean M. Carroll
“The asymmetry of time, the arrow that points from past to future, plays an unmistakable role in our everyday lives: it accounts for why we cannot turn an omelet into an egg, why ice cubes never spontaneously unmelt in a glass of water, and why we remember the past but not the future. And the origin of the asymmetry we experience can be traced all the way back to the orderliness of the universe near the big bang. Every time you break an egg, you are doing observational cosmology.” WayPlayBigsPastRememberTimeTurnsUniverseWaterRolesBreakAccountsEverydayGlassesIceEggsEveryday LifeBangsArrowsCosmologyCubesRemembering The PastOmeletsOrderlinessAsymmetry Author:Sean M. Carroll
“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.” KnowsReasonRealitySeemsUniverseGivenUnderstandingSimpleDescriptionNo ReasonInvoke Author:Sean M. Carroll
