Quotes from book
The Order of Time

Name: The Order of Time
Author: Carlo Rovelli

The Order of Time is a book by Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli. It is about time in physics.An audiobook, four hours and nineteen minutes long, was read by Benedict Cumberbatch.

“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.”

Carlo Rovelli book The Order of Time

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

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

Carlo Rovelli book The Order of Time

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

“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.”

Carlo Rovelli book The Order of Time

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

“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.”

Carlo Rovelli book The Order of Time

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

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