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Quotes from Quantum gravity — Carlo Rovelli

born 1956 Italy

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

Quantum gravity (2004)

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

Quantum gravity (2004)

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 reflect reality like the lake reflects the mountains.

Quantum gravity (2004)

The new coherent picture is not yet available. With all their immense empirical success, G(eneral)R(elativity) and Q(uantum)M(echanics) have left us with an understanding of the physical world which is unclear and badly fragmented. At the foundations of physics there is today confusion and incoherence.

Quantum gravity (2004)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Carlo Rovelli (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.