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Time is... the expression of our ignorance of the full microstate.

— Carlo Rovelli Forget time (2008)

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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.

The Order of Time (2018)

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

Quantum gravity (2004)

The World is Made of Events, not Things.

The Order of Time (2018)

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.

Seven Brief Lectures on Physics (2014)

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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From now on, everything in life will appear blurry to me. What’s the point of wiping my glasses when my vision has already left me?"

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You can never plan the future by the past.

Edmund Burke A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791)

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.

Abraham Cowley Poems (1656)

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