Reality Is Not What It Seems / The Order of Time / Seven Brief Lessons on Physics Quotes

“Science is made up of experiments, hypotheses, equations, calculations, and long discussions; but these are only tools, like the instruments of musicians. In the end, what matters in music is the music itself, and what matters in science is the understanding of the world that science provides.

To understand the significance of the discovery that Earth turns around the sun, it is not necessary to follow Copernicus's complicated calculations; to understand the importance of the discovery that all living beings on our planet have the same ancestors, it is not necessary to follow the complex arguments of Darwin's books. Science is about reading the world from a gradually widening point of view.”
― Carlo Rovelli, Reality Is Not What It Seems / The Order of Time / Seven Brief Lessons on Physics