Quotes from book
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Name: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Author: Carlo Rovelli

Carlo RovelliOriginal title Sette brevi lezioni di fisica (Italian, 2014)

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics is a short book by the Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli. Originally published in Italian in 2014, the book has been translated into 41 languages. More than a million copies have been sold, of which more than 400,000 in Italy.

“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)
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“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.”

Carlo Rovelli book Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Source: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics