Carlo Rovelli

"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 en…"

"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 a bit the misty lake of insubstantial dreams, which…"

"The landscape is magic, the trip is far from being over."

"Hawking was one of the good physicists of his generation, not the universal genius the popular press has depicted."

"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."

"The new coherent picture is not yet available. With all their immense empirical success, GR and QM have left us with an understanding of the physical world which is unclear and badly fragmented. At th…"

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

"A handful of types of elementary particles, which vibrate and fluctuate constantly between existence and non-existence and swarm in space even when it seems that there is nothing there, combine togeth…"