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"Hawking was one of the good physicists of his generation, not the universal genius the popular press has depicted. It is a pity, because this confusion fogs the memory of a remarkable man."
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Carlo Rovelli... theoretical physics is less clean than the way its usually solved. — Carlo Rovelli
"... theoretical physics is less clean than the way its usually solved. You can always change parameters and save yourself. ... its very rare that theories are ruled out by just an experiment or a group of experiments. Theories usually come with flexibility. Theoreticians can add flexibility. And so new experiments — you can just patch up your theory."
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Carlo Rovelli
Carlo Rovelli
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Carlo Rovelli is an Italian theoretical physicist and writer who has worked in Italy, the United States, France, and Canada. He is currently Emeritus Professor at the Centre de Physique Théorique of Marseille in France, a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute, core member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy of Western University in Canada, and Fractal Faculty of the Sa
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"The landscape is magic, the trip is far from being over."
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"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."
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"[I]n a fundamental description of nature we must "forget time"... this can be done in the classical and in the quantum theory."
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"An overly pragmatic attitude is not productive in the long run."
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"Listening to a cultivated person of today who jokes and almost boasts of his scientific ignorance is as sad as listening to a scientist who boasts of not having read any poem."
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