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

- Sean M. Carroll

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 …

- Sean M. Carroll

We are not significant on the cosmic scale.

- 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.

- Sean M. Carroll

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

- Sean M. Carroll

God is not described in equations.

- Sean M. Carroll

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

- Sean M. Carroll

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, and …

- 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 tur…

- Sean M. Carroll