Carlo Rovelli Quotes

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.

~ Carlo Rovelli

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

~ Carlo Rovelli

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

~ Carlo Rovelli

The atoms of our body, as well, flow in and away from us. We, like waves and like all objects, are a flux of events; we are processes, for a brief time monotonous

~ Carlo Rovelli

When Einstein died, his greatest rival, Bohr, found for him words of moving admiration. When a few years later Bohr in turn died, someone took a photograph of the blackboard in his study. There’s a drawing on it. A drawing of the ‘light-filled box’ in Einstein’s thought experiment. To the very last, the desire to challenge oneself and understand more. And to the very last: doubt

~ Carlo Rovelli

Within the immense ocean of galaxies and stars we are in a remote corner, amidst the infinite arabesques of forms which constitute reality we are merely a flourish among innumerably many such flourishes.

~ Carlo Rovelli

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

~ Carlo Rovelli

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

~ Carlo Rovelli

What are we, in this boundless and glowing world?

~ Carlo Rovelli

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.

~ Carlo Rovelli

A university student attending lectures on general relativity i the morning and others on quantum mechanics in the afternoon might be forgiven for thinking that his professors are fools, or have neglected to communicate with each other for at least a century.

~ Carlo Rovelli