Quotes from Sean Carroll

Si nuestras vidas son breves y carecen de dirección, al menos podemos sentirnos orgullosos de nuestro coraje colectivo en nuestra lucha por comprender cosas mucho más grandes que nosotros.

NIETZSCHE IS DEAD—GOD.

The move from description to prescription, from saying what happens to passing judgment on what should happen, is a creative one, a fundamentally human act. The world is just the world, unfolding according to the patterns of nature, free of any judgmental attributes. The world exists; beauty and goodness are things that we bring to it.

The issue that troubles us, when we get right down to it, isn't anything about the laws of physics; it's about free will.

Obviously the correspondence needs to be nonlocal; you can't match up individual points in a four-dimensional space to points in a five-dimensional space. But you can imagine matching up states in one theory, defined at some time, to states in the other theory. If that doesn't convince you that spacetime is not fundamental, I can't imagine what would.

We are not the reason for the existence of the universe, but our ability for self-awareness and reflection makes us special within it.

The meaning we find in life is not transacendent, but it's no less meaningful for that.

Bayes teaches us (1) never to assign perfect certainty to any such belief; (2) always to be prepared to update our credences when new evidence comes along; and (3) how exactly such evidence alters the credences we assign. It's a road map for coming closer and closer to the truth.