77 Quotes by Sean Carroll

If an ontology predicts almost nothing it ends up explaining almost nothing, and there’s no reason to believe it.

That’s how science works. We don’t “prove” results like we can in mathematics or logic; we simply add to their plausibility by accumulating more and more evidence.

So neurons talk to each other by squirting electrically charged molecules from the axon of one to a dendrite on another.

Quantum reality is a wave function; classical positions and velocities are merely what we are able to observe when we probe that wave function.

As we understand the world better, the idea that it has a transcendent purpose seems increasingly untenable.