Rationality and the instinct of collaboration have already given us large regions and long periods of peace and prosperity. Ultimately, they will lea…

- Carlo Rovelli

An overly pragmatic attitude is not productive on the long run.

- Carlo Rovelli

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 …

- Carlo Rovelli

Don't trust your teachers.

- Carlo Rovelli

I think that the resistance against Darwin is not just the difficulty of seeing the power of a spectacularly beautiful explanation: it is the fear of…

- Carlo Rovelli

Einstein’s 1905 paper came out and suddenly changed people’s thinking about space-time. We’re again in the middle of something like that. When the du…

- Carlo Rovelli

We never really see time. We see only clocks. If you say this object moves, what you really mean is that this object is here when the hand of your cl…

- Carlo Rovelli

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 …

- Carlo Rovelli

Listening a cultivated person of today that jokes and almost boasts about his scientific ignorance, is as sad as listening a scientist that boasts ab…

- Carlo Rovelli