I worry that free imagination is overvalued, and I think this carries risks.
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
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
Don't trust your teachers. - Carlo Rovelli
Don't trust your teachers.
An overly pragmatic attitude is not productive on the long run. - Carlo Rovelli
An overly pragmatic attitude is not productive on the long run.
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
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 …
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
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
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 …
The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt. Precisely because we keep questioning everything, especially our own premises, we a… - Carlo Rovelli
The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt. Precisely because we keep questioning everything, especially our own premises, we a…
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