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Carlo Rovelli: Citations en anglais

“Listening to a cultivated person of today who jokes and almost boasts of his scientific ignorance is as sad as listening to a scientist who boasts of not having read any poem.”

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Il Sole 24 Ore cultural supplement, October 17, 2010.

“We are made of the same stardust of which all things are made, and when we are immersed in suffering or when we are experiencing intense joy we are being nothing other than what we can’t help but be: a part of our world.”

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Carlo Rovelli livre Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Source: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

“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.”

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Carlo Rovelli livre Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

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

“But it isn’t absence that causes sorrow. It is affection and love. Without affection, without love, such absences would cause us no pain. For this reason, even the pain caused by absence is, in the end, something good and even beautiful, because it feeds on that which gives meaning to life.”

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Carlo Rovelli livre The Order of Time

Source: The Order of Time (2018), p. 105

“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.”

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Carlo Rovelli Quantum gravity

Source: Quantum gravity (2004), p. xvii

“An overly pragmatic attitude is not productive in the long run.”

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Carlo Rovelli Quantum gravity

Source: Quantum gravity (2004), p. 4

“A handful of types of elementary particles, which vibrate and fluctuate constantly between existence and non-existence and swarm in space even when it seems that there is nothing there, combine together to infinity like the letters of a cosmic alphabet to tell the immense history of galaxies, of the innumerable stars, of sunlight, of mountains, woods and fields of grain, of the smiling faces of the young at parties, and of the night sky studded with stars.”

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Source: Seven Brief Lectures on Physics (2014), p. 34

“The new coherent picture is not yet available. With all their immense empirical success, G(eneral)R(elativity) and Q(uantum)M(echanics) have left us with an understanding of the physical world which is unclear and badly fragmented. At the foundations of physics there is today confusion and incoherence.”

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Carlo Rovelli Quantum gravity

Source: Quantum gravity (2004), p. 4

“The landscape is magic, the trip is far from being over.”

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Carlo Rovelli Quantum gravity

Source: Quantum gravity (2004), p. xv

“Don't trust your teachers.”

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Carlo Rovelli

Lectures at The First Quantum Geometry and Quantum Gravity School, March 23 - April 3, 2007, Zakopane, Poland.

“The World is Made of Events, not Things.”

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Carlo Rovelli livre The Order of Time

Source: The Order of Time (2018), p. 85

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

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"Forget time" (Aug, 2008)

“[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.”

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

“If we had a starship, we could move near a black hole, stay there for a half hour and then come out. Outside hundreds of years could have gone. So we could... come away from the black hole into the far future easily.”

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

“The difference between past and future... cause and effect... memory and hope... regret and intention... in the elementary laws that describe the mechanisms of the world, there is no such difference.”

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Carlo Rovelli livre The Order of Time

2. Loss of Direction. Where Does the Eternal Current Come From?
The Order of Time (2018)

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

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"Forget time" (Aug, 2008)

“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.”

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"Forget time" (Aug, 2008)

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

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"Forget time" (Aug, 2008)

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

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"Forget time" (Aug, 2008)

“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.”

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"Forget time" (Aug, 2008)

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

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Carlo Rovelli livre The Order of Time

Source: The Order of Time (2018), p. 11

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