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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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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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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Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
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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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When you are romancing a woman in a relationship, it should be poetic. It should have layers.
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When I'm working, even though it's sometimes challenging and difficult, there's still no place I would rather be.
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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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An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
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I didn't get into politics because I thought government had a better answer. I got into politics because I knew government didn't have the real answers, that the real answers lie in accepting Jesus Christ into our lives.
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If you're going to go out doing something, you might as well be fighting for your country or fighting for your life.
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History is philosophy teaching by experience.
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Some sell their soul for the easy road. The devil's always buying. I can't count the ones I've known who fell right into line.
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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.
