Sean M. Carroll Quotes

#1. 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.

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

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#3. 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.

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#4. 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.

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

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#6. Just the idea that we, these little collections of atoms and molecules, are part of the world, but a part that can look at the rest of the world and figure it out in a self-referential way, is kind of breathtaking.

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#7. 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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#8. God is not described in equations.

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#9. Scientifically speaking, the existence of God is an untenable hypothesis. It's not well-defined, it's completely unnecessary to fit the data, and it adds unhelpful layers of complexity without any corresponding increase in understanding.

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