There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness: And Other Thoughts on Physics, Philosophy and the World

by Carlo Rovelli

It is probability that makes life interesting. It is because of probability that we can be touched by the unexpected.

The internal tensions between one theory and another, between data and theory, between different components of our knowledge, generate the apparently irresolvable tensions from which the new springs. The new breaks the old rules, but in order to resolve contradictions rather than for the sake of it.