The Importance of Being Interested Quotes

“I wonder how it can be considered that science disenchants the world. The power of the spells of physics to make the empty solid — and nothing, something — seem greater than anything I have ever read in folk tales.”
― Robin Ince, The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity

“We think that something in the past is not real any more, but it is still there in general relativity. It is part of the curved spacetime in which we live. Just because an event is behind us in our timeline does not make it any less real. When someone you love dies, or when a time that you valued is over, it can never be recaptured, but it is there.”
― Robin Ince, The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity

“For Carlos, this is the most incredible thing about the universe. This is where his god comes in. He believes that God's act if creation was to create physics, and after that He went on holiday.”
― Robin Ince, The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity