“When Einstein died, his greatest rival, Bohr, found for him words of moving admiration. When a few years later Bohr in turn died, someone took a photograph of the blackboard in his study. There’s a drawing on it. A drawing… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
“It must not be claimed that anyone can sense time by itself apart from the movement of things. LUCRETIUS, De rerum natura1” — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
“The world of quantum mechanics is not a world of objects: it is a world of events.” — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
“the particles are quanta of quantum fields; light is formed by quanta of a field; space is nothing more than a field, which is… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
“The difference between past and future exists only when there is heat. The fundamental phenomenon that distinguishes the future from the past is the… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
Rationality and the instinct of collaboration have already given us large regions and long periods of peace and prosperity. Ultimately, they will lead us… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
“There is a feeling of deep universalism, in the wake of the splendid words of Democritus: “To a wise man, the whole earth is… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt. Precisely because we keep questioning everything, especially our own premises, we… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
“Space is a spin network whose nodes represent its elementary grains, and whose links describe their proximity relations. Spacetime” — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
“Every cubic centimeter of space, and every second that passes, is the result of this dancing foam of extremely small quanta.” — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
“Space is created by the interaction of individual quanta of gravity.” — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
“The quanta of gravity, that is, are not in space; they are themselves space. The” — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
“It is characteristic of genius to be aware of the limitations of its own findings” — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
“Scientific thinking explores and redraws the world, gradually offering us better and better images of it, teaching us to think in ever more effective… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
“Clues put us on the right path toward a correct theory. Strong evidence is that which subsequently allows us to trust whether the theory… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
