Carlo Rovelli: Quotes about time

Carlo Rovelli is Italian physicist. Explore interesting quotes on time.

Carlo Rovelli: 42 quotes 1 like

“In his youth Albert Einstein spent a year loafing aim- lessly. You don’t get anywhere by not ‘wasting’ time – something, unfortunately, which the parents of teenagers tend frequently to forget.”

Carlo Rovelli book Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

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Seven Brief Lectures on Physics (2014)
Source: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Youth , Parent , Time , Forgetting

“Time is... the expression of our ignorance of the full microstate.”

Carlo Rovelli

"Forget time" (Aug, 2008)

Time

“[T]ime is much more elastic than our intuition of this rigid passage... The time interval between one point and another... depends on where you are.”

Carlo Rovelli

Carlo Rovelli: The nature of time (Apr 10, 2020)

Time , Dependency

“If we formulate the fundamental theory of nature in a timeless language, we have then the problem of recovering the familiar notion of time.”

Carlo Rovelli

"Forget time" (Aug, 2008)

Time , Nature , Problem

“General relativity has changed our understanding of space and time. ...The spacetime of general relativity ...is likely to be just a classical approximation that loses its meaning in the quantum theory, for the same reason the trajectory of a particle does.”

Carlo Rovelli

"Forget time" (Aug, 2008)

Change , Time , Understanding

“I... interpret mechanics as a theory of relations between variables, rather than the theory of the evolution of variables in time.”

Carlo Rovelli

"Forget time" (Aug, 2008)

Time

“[I]n a fundamental description of nature we must "forget time"... this can be done in the classical and in the quantum theory.”

Carlo Rovelli

"Forget time" (Aug, 2008)

Time , Forgetting , Nature

“I argue that the best strategy for understanding quantum gravity is to build a picture of the physical world where the notion of time plays no role at all.”

Carlo Rovelli

"Forget time" (Aug, 2008)

Time , Understanding , World