Sean M. Carroll Quotes

I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe.

In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.

There's something in the very small minutia of life that tells us something about the big, big picture that we see every day all over the place, and so I think the more specific and creative and revelatory you are in the micro, the more powerful the macro will be.

The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough.

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

I like having songs that go from the personal to the kind of inter-relational, universal, because everything comes back to micro/macro and everything's tied in.

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning.

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.

Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.

In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.

What's my philosophy? In a word, integral.

Whoever defines the word, defines the world.

It's like, the more you zoom in and focus on the details, the closer to the invisible and immeasurable qualities - like consciousness and energies - you get. And expanding outwards, into the cosmos, you learn more about the invisible or perceptible things.

Our task is to look at the world, and see it whole.

He who understands one thing understands everything, for the same laws are in all.

Symphony is the ability to see the big picture, connect the dots, combine disparate things into something new. Visual artists in particular are good at seeing how the pieces come together. I experienced this myself by trying to learn to draw.

I am just relating to the world we live in. I see some order in it, even though it looks like mush.

The world is nothing but 'world-as-meaning.

The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.

One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.

You're not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.