77 Quotes by Sean Carroll

Don't play Quantum Russian Roulette.

...la ciencia es un viaje en el que buena parte de la diversión está, sin duda alguna, en el trayecto.

...si realmente podemos esperar toda la eternidad, hasta las cosas más improbables acabarán sucediendo.

With vacuum fluctuations, we have to distinguish between evidence for the existence of the fluctuations, and for their energy.

It is hard to distinguish these events, even with boatloads of data. As you go into deep time, origins are much harder to pick out. And given that there is so much data, you have to ask: why aren't you getting any resolution?

I rubbed his face (and said,) 'Please don't die,'

There are many, many cases where DNA has told us about species' relationships that we never would have guessed based on appearances or other characteristics. We need this tree to understand the great story of animal evolution.

The wing spot on the fruit fly is a particularly good model because we know it constitutes a new feature that is gained or lost by evolution in different species. And, since it is a spatial pattern, it gives us a chance to analyze the evolution of a physical trait.

The way he was peering up and down the block, it would appear to me that he slinked back into the vestibule,