The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt. Precisely because we keep questioning everything, especially our own… — 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… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
“We are all in the depths of a cave, chained by our ignorance, by our prejudices, and our weak senses reveal to… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
“Science is about reading the world from a gradually widening point of view.” — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
Listening a cultivated person of today that jokes and almost boasts about his scientific ignorance, is as sad as listening a scientist… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
“The atoms of our body, as well, flow in and away from us. We, like waves and like all objects, are a… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
“I believe that this example demonstrates how great science and great poetry are both visionary, and may even arrive at the same… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
We never really see time. We see only clocks. If you say this object moves, what you really mean is that this… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
Einstein’s 1905 paper came out and suddenly changed people’s thinking about space-time. We’re again in the middle of something like that. When… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
“To the very last, the desire to debate, to understand more. To the very last, doubt. This permanent doubt, the deep source… — 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
