Quotes About Existence

What role do we have as human beings who perceive, make decisions, laugh, and cry, in this great fresco of the world as depicted by contemporary physics?

Carlo Rovelli

We are stories, contained within the twenty complicated centimeters behind our eyes, lines drawn by traces left by the (re)mingling together of things in the world, and oriented toward the direction of increasing entropy, in a rather particular corner of this inmense, chaotic universe.

Noi siamo fatti della stessa polvere di stelle di cui sono fatte le cose e sia quando siamo immersi nel dolore sia quando ridiamo e risplende la gioia non facciamo che essere quello che non possiamo che essere: parte del nostro mondo.

We can go back to serenely immersing ourselves in time -in our finite time- to savoring the clear intensity of every fleeting and cherished moment of the brief circle of our existence.

Even if we observe a small, empty region of space in which there are no atoms, we still detect a minute swarming of these particles.

Why do we remember the past and not the future?

The expanded present is the set of events that are neither past nor future: it exists, just as there are human beings who are neither our descendants nor our forebears.

If the present has no meaning, then what "exists" in the universe? Is not what "exists" precisely what is here "in the present"?

we are nothing but images of images. Reality, including our selves, is nothing but a thin and fragile veil, beyond which . . . there is nothing.

Quantum gravity is the discovery that no infinitely small point exists. There is a lower limit to the divisibility of space.

Despite certain obscurities,

Newton asserts explicitly in his book that we can't ever measure the true time t, but if we assume that it exists, we can set up an efficient framework to describe nature.

It must not be claimed that anyone can sense time by itself apart from the movement of things. LUCRETIUS, De rerum natura1

Qui, sul bordo di quello che sappiamo, a contatto con l'oceano di quanto non sappiamo, brillano il mistero del mondo, la bellezza del mondo, e ci lasciano senza fiato.

We are structured to manage precisely this: information; and remain in existence thanks to this.

man is what we all know.

As our knowledge has grown, we have learned that our being is only a part of the universe, and a small part at that. This

More than a hundred years have passed since we learned that the "present of the universe" does not exist.

The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.

Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete.

Se procurar bem, você acaba encontrando não a explicação (duvidosa) da vida, mas a poesia (inexplicável) da vida.

O tempo é a minha matéria. O tempo presente, os homens presentes, a vida presente.

lema epicúreo: láthe biósas, «oculta tu vivir» o «vive sin ser notado».