143 Quotes by Carlo Rovelli

The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt.

Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed from within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same.

Time is information we don't have. Time is our ignorance.

Experiments had shown that an atom is like a small solar system: the mass is concentrated in a heavy central nucleus, around which light electrons revolve, more or less like planets around the Sun.

A science that closes its ears to philosophy fades into superficiality; a philosophy that pays no attention to the scientific knowledge of its time is obtuse and sterile. It betrays its own deepest roots, which are evident in the etymology of philosophy: the love of knowledge.

We are for ourselves in large measure what we see and have seen of ourselves refelcted back to us by our friends, our loves, and our enemies.

We can go back to serenely immersing ourselves in time -in our finite time- to savoring the clear intensity of every fleeting and cherished moment of the brief circle of our existence.

Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution.

We think that our minds are all powerful but in reality they’ve evolved to do what we need to do, like hunt, eat and talk to one another.So the concepts in our head are designed to deal with animals, trees, rivers and people. There’s no reason why they should be able to deal with atoms or galaxies. But I believe we’re flexible and our minds are curious, so we can change our thinking.