143 Quotes by Carlo Rovelli

The world is complex, and we capture it with different languages, each appropriate to the process that we are describing.

Once again, the world seems to be less about objects than about interactive relationships.

I think that physics is about escaping the prison of the received thoughts and searching for novel ways of thinking the world, about trying to clear a bit the misty lake of insubstantial dreams, which reflect reality like the lake reflects the mountains.

Things” in themselves are only events that for a while are monotonous.

The heat of black holes is like the Rosetta stone of physics, written in a combination of three languages- quantum, gravitational, and thermodynamic- still awaiting decipherment in order to reveal the true nature of time.

We are perhaps the only species on Earth to be conscious of the inevitability of our individual mortality.

An overly pragmatic attitude is not productive on the long run.

I believe that our species will not last long. It does not seem to be made of the stuff that has allowed the turtle, for example, to continue to exist more or less unchanged for hundreds of millions of years, for hundreds of times longer, that is, than we have even been in existence. We belong to a short-lived genus of species. All of our cousins are already extinct. What’s more, we do damage. The brutal climate and environmental changes that we have triggered are unlikely to spare us.

The most credible answers are the ones given by science, because science IS the search for the most credible answers available, not for answers pretending to certainty.