Quotes About Carlo Rovelli

The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, or Principia, the book that founded modern science.

Myths nourish science, and science nourishes myth. But the value of knowledge remains.

Thinking of the world as a collection of events, of processes, is the way that allows us to better grasp, comprehend, and describe it.

The growth of entropy is nothing other than the ubiquitous and familiar natural increase of disorder. This is what Boltzmann understood.

due to which the value of one variable implies something about the value of the other.68 This is the meaning of the word "information" that I am using here.

This clarified, here is the point: it is possible to think of quantum physics as a theory of information (in the sense outlined) that systems have about one another.

first theory of relativity (known today as "special relativity"), the theory that elucidates how time does not pass identically for everyone:

All of this is the result of an elementary intuition: that space and gravitational field are the same thing.