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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 end, something good and even beautiful, because it feeds on that which gives meaning to life.

— Carlo Rovelli The Order of Time (2018)

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

Quantum gravity (2004)

Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same.

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

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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.

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