May 3: Carlo Rovelli quotes

May 3 Physics Quote of the Day. (Sorry for all that noise in the background. I didn't expect all those motorized vehicles in the park. I'll need to find quieter places, or a suitable microphone :-)

Carlo Rovelli (born May 3, 1956) http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carlo_Rovelli

also birthday of Steven Weinberg (born May 3, 1933) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Weinberg

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

"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."

"The new coherent picture is not yet available. With all their immense empirical success, G(eneral)R(elativity) and Q(uantum)M(echanics) have left us with an understanding of the physical world which is unclear and badly fragmented. At the foundations of physics there is today confusion and incoherence."

"An overly pragmatic attitude is not productive on the long run."

"Don't trust your teachers."

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