143 Quotes by Carlo Rovelli

The idea that a well-defined now exists throughout the universe is an illusion, an illegitimate extrapolation of our own experience.

We are stories, contained within the twenty complicated centimeters behind our eyes, lines drawn by traces left by the (re)mingling together of things in the world, and oriented toward the direction of increasing entropy, in a rather particular corner of this inmense, chaotic universe.

Our moral values, our emotions, our loves are no less real for being part of nature, for being shared with the animal world, or for being determined by the evolution which our species has undergone over millions of years. Rather, they are more valuable as a result of this: they are real. They are the complex reality of which we are made. Our reality is tears and laughter, gratitude and altruism, loyalty and betrayal, the past which haunts us and serenity.

The atoms of our body, as well, flow in and away from us. We, like waves and like all objects, are a flux of events; we are processes, for a brief time monotonous

Within the immense ocean of galaxies and stars we are in a remote corner; amidst the infinite arabesques of forms which constitute reality we are merely a flourish among innumerably many such flourishes.

Undistracted by schooling, one studies best during vacations

Books contain our history; our brains swarm with memories.

To the very last, the desire to challenge oneself and understand more. And to the very last: doubt.

Life on Earth gives only a small taste of what can happen in the universe.