Carlo Rovelli Quotes

Listening a cultivated person of today that jokes and almost boasts about his scientific ignorance, is as sad as listening a scientist that boasts about not having read any poem.

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

I worry that free imagination is overvalued, and I think this carries risks.

Don't trust your teachers.

Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and beauty of the world. And it’s breathtaking.

What does what we know or don't know have to do with the laws that govern the world?

Once again, the world seems to be less about objects than about interactive relationships.

Time is information we don't have. Time is our ignorance.

Life on Earth gives only a small taste of what can happen in the universe.

To the very last, the desire to challenge oneself and understand more. And to the very last: doubt.

What are we, in this boundless and glowing world?

It is hardly surprising that there are more things in heaven and earth, dear reader, than have been dreamed of in our philosophy - or in our physics.