Sean M. Carroll Quotes

The ordinary can be absolutely miraculous.

Any perception can connect us to reality, properly and fully. What we see doesn't have to be pretty, particularly; we can appreciate anything that exists. There is some principle of magic in everything, some living quality. Something living, something real, is taking place in everything.

This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.

The world is its own magic.

I love reality. I love the world. I love the smell of it. I love it.

I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it.

The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.

As much as I love art, there is no art as fine as the world we have been given.

I simply liked looking at the world around us.

The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.

How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?

There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics.

After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.

Nothing but what astonishes is true.

The world is just - it's wonderful when you look at all the detail. It's just amazing. Nothing is boring if you look at it carefully.

How beautiful the world was when one looked at it, without searching... just looked, simply and innocently.

One day you're waiting for the sky to fall, The next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all.

The world is full of wonders that cannot be measured. That is why they are wonders.

To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun; to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world.

What the ordinary person means by a 'miracle' is some gross distortion or suspension of the laws of nature... but life itself strikes him as commonplace, when in truth a blade of grass or a neuron in the brain is a greater miracle.

We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.

When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life, I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time.