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Carlo Rovelli

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Quotes by Carlo Rovelli

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An individual is a process: complex, tightly integrated.
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In the awareness that we can always be wrong, and therefore ready at any moment to change direction if a new track appears; but knowing also that if we are good enough we will get it right and will find what we are seeking. This is the nature of science. The.
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Quantum mechanics extends this relativity in a radical way: all variable aspects of an object exist only in relation to other objects. It is only in interactions that nature draws the world.
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Every cubic centimeter of space, and every second that passes, is the result of this dancing foam of extremely small quanta.
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For everything that moves, time passes more slowly.
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An elementary structure of the world is emerging, generated by a swarm of quantum events, where time and space do not exist. Quantum fields draw together space, time, matter, and light, exchanging information between one event and another. Reality is a network of granular events; the dynamic that connects them is probabilistic; between one event and another, space, time, matter, and energy melt into a cloud of probability.
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We are made up of the same atoms and the same light signals as are exchanged between pine trees in the mountains and stars in the galaxies.
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To trust immediate intuitions rather than collective examination that is rational, careful, and intelligent is not wisdom: it is the presumption of an old man who refuses to believe that the great world outside his village is any different from the one that he has always known. As.
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Nature is behaving with us like that elderly rabbi to whom two men went in order to settle a dispute. Having listened to the first, the rabbi says: “You are in the right.” The second insists on being heard. The rabbi listens to him and says: “You’re also right.” Having overheard from the next room, the rabbi’s wife then calls out, “But they can’t both be in the right!” The rabbi reflects and nods before concluding: “And you’re right too.” A.
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Those who criticize the usefulness of philosophy for science, Aristotle has noticed, are not doing science: they are doing philosophy.
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