“The arrow of time doesn't move forward forever. There's a phase in the...” — Sean M. Carroll Quote

“The arrow of time doesn't move forward forever. There's a phase in the history of the universe where you go from low entropy to high entropy. But then, once you reach the locally maximum entropy you can get to, there's no more arrow of time.”

“If our local, observable universe is embedded in a larger structure, a multiverse, then there's other places in this larger structure that have denizens in them that call their local environs the universe. And conditions in those other places could be very different. Or they could be pretty similar to what we have here.”

“One of the tragedies of our educational system is that we've taken this incredibly interesting subject - how the universe works - and made it boring.”

“The idea that time is an illusion is an old one, predating any Times Square ball drop or champagne celebrations. It reaches back to the days of Heraclitus and Parmenides, pre-Socratic thinkers who are staples of introductory philosophy courses.”

“If time travel were possible, you still wouldn't be able to change the past - it's already happened!”

“Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.”

“Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.”

“Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.”

“I grew up in a really horrible school system, but my parents did not let that define how we function. They gave me more work at home from them than I ever got from school. To learn about the history of myself and my people, and that armors me.”

“Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.”

“When you limit the word 'jazz' to one period of history, for the people who love that period, then maybe it can be dead because nobody plays like that anymore. But jazz is progressive music; it always has to progress, and musicians always have to find new landscapes and new ways to speak out, so of course it's always changing.”