143 Quotes by Carlo Rovelli

"You don’t get to new places by following established tracks."

"It is entropy, not energy, that keeps stones on the ground and the world turning."

"The world is like a collection of interrelated points of view."

"Space is created by the interaction of individual quanta of gravity."

"We inhabit time as fish live in water. Our being is being in time."

"Science is about reading the world from a gradually widening point of view."

"What counts is not the pen used for writing but the poetry that is written. The reason we take interest in an automobile engine is not because it makes wheels turn; it is because it takes us places that we could not reach by foot. The turning wheels are just the mechanism of an instrument that allows us to journey."

"We can think of the world as made up of things. Of substances. Of entities. Of something that is. Or we can think of it as made up of events. Of happenings. Of processes. Of something that occurs. Something that does not last, and that undergoes continual transformation, that is not permanent in time."

"In his youth Albert Einstein spent a year loafing aimlessly. You don’t get anywhere by not ‘wasting’ time- something, unfortunately, that the parents of teenagers tend frequently to forget."

"Nature is our home, and in nature we are at home. This strange, multicoloured and astonishing world which we explore – where space is granular, time does not exist, and things are nowhere – is not something that estranges us from our true selves, for this is only what our natural curiosity reveals to us about the place of our dwelling. About the stuff of which we ourselves are made."