Carlo Rovelli Quotes
The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt. Precisely because we keep questioning everything, especially our own premises, we are always ready to improve our knowledge. Therefore a good scientist is never ‘certain’. Lack of certainty is precisely what makes conclusions more reliable than the conclusions of those who are certain: because the good scientist will be ready to shift to a different point of view if better elements of evidence, or novel arguments emerge. Therefore certainty is not only something of no use, but is in fact damaging, if we value reliability.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
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The clothes that I design and everything I've done is about life and how people live and how they want to live and how they dream they'll live. That's what I do.
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I think I've been a very good student of all aspects of being in Congress. I think I'm always working hard to get an 'A.'
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It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.
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One of my first jobs was on a lesbian cruise. I was the ship comedian for the Lesbian Love Boat.
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I have no illusions about having another 'Seinfeld' in my life.
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I was a good student. My mom is a teacher, and her side of the family is all teachers. She put a big emphasis on getting good grades.
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With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them.
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I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.
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Michael Mann's always been one of my heroes.
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I came up professionally as a lawyer, and when you're a lawyer, writing a 50-page brief in one night is just another day at the office. You learn to make choices really quickly, and you learn how to get thoughts down very quickly.
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I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.
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For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.
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No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twistWolfs-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine;Nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kiss’dBy nightshade.
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As we get more technically driven, the importance of people becomes more than it's ever been before. You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience.
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My job is to pay attention to my children's genius and allow those leanings to lead them to their future.
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The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt. Precisely because we keep questioning everything, especially our own premises, we are always ready to improve our knowledge. Therefore a good scientist is never ‘certain’. Lack of certainty is precisely what makes conclusions more reliable than the conclusions of those who are certain: because the good scientist will be ready to shift to a different point of view if better elements of evidence, or novel arguments emerge. Therefore certainty is not only something of no use, but is in fact damaging, if we value reliability.
