18 best-selling philosophy books like The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli

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Similar categories in Neil deGrasse Tyson's Astrophysics for People in a Hurry book and Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time

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"….. Neptune, the outermost planet. No, it’s not Pluto. Get over it."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

"Bosons, by the way, are named for the Indian scientist Satyendra Nath Bose."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

"Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

"I don't know about you, but the planet Saturn pops into my mind with every bite of a hamburger I take."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Similar categories in Paul C.W. Davies's Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science book and Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time

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"Whether we like it or not, modern ways are going to alter and in part destroy traditional customs and values."

-Paul C.W. Davies, Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

"Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding."

-Paul C.W. Davies, Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

"Here the attention of the research workers is primarily directed to the problem of reconciling the claims of the special relativity theory with those of the quantum theory. The extraordinary advances…"

-Paul C.W. Davies, Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

"If we wanted to construct a basic philosophical attitude from these scientific utterances of Pauli 's, at first we would be inclined to infer from them an extreme rationalism and a fundamentally skep…"

-Paul C.W. Davies, Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

Similar categories in Sean Carroll's The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself book and Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time

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"Life is short, and certainty never happens."

-Sean Carroll, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

"Intellectual fascination crosses many boundaries."

-Sean Carroll, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

"Life is not a substance, like water or rock; it’s a process, like fire or a wave crashing on the shore. It’s a process that begins, lasts for a while, and ultimately ends. Long or short, our moments …"

-Sean Carroll, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

"Where misunderstanding dwells, misuse will not be far behind. No theory in the history of science has been more misused and abused by cranks and charlatans—and misunderstood by people struggling in g…"

-Sean Carroll, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

Similar categories in Lee Smolin's Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe book and Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time

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Similar categories in Richard P. Feynman's Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher book and Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time

Similar categories in Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time book and Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time

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"God abhors a naked singularity."

-Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

"There should be no boundary to human endeavor."

-Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

"Cuando miramos al universo, lo vemos tal como fue en el pasado"

-Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

"If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?"

-Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

Similar categories in Edwin A. Abbott's Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions book and Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time

Similar categories in Stephen Hawking's Brief Answers to the Big Questions book and Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time

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"I use the word “God"

-Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

"This “Hawking temperature"

-Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

"So some might imagine that I am an expert on time, although of course these days an expert is not necessarily a good thing to be."

-Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

"I think it is legitimate to take a broader view and include externally transmitted information, as well as DNA, in the evolution of the human race."

-Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

Similar categories in Robert M. Sapolsky's Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will book and Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time

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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Similar categories in Michio Kaku's The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything book and Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time

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Similar categories in Benjamín Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World book and Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time

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"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

Similar categories in Sean Carroll's Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime book and Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time

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"Don't play Quantum Russian Roulette."

-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

"As far as quantum field theory is concerned, a human being or the center of a star isn’t all that different from empty space."

-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

"The enigma at the heart of quantum reality can be summed up in a single motto: what we see when we look at the world seems to be fundamentally different from what actually is."

-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

"If there were some nefarious conspiracy to make the world look quantum-mechanical, it had to have been set up hundreds of years ago, when the light left those stars. It's possible, but doesn't seem l…"

-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

Similar categories in Benjamín Labatut's The Maniac book and Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time

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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

Similar categories in Thomas Hertog's On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory book and Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time

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"We can compare spacetime to an open, conic cup. We move forward in time by following the cone upward to the top. We move through space by going around in circles. If we imagine going back in time, we…"

-Thomas Hertog, On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory

Similar categories in Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time book and Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time

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"We understand the world in its becoming, not in its being."

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

"Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution."

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

"Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed from within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same."

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

"Before Newton, time for humanity was the way of counting how things changed. Before him, no one had thought it possible that a time independent of things could exist. Don't take your intuitions and i…"

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

Similar categories in Sabine Hossenfelder's Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions book and Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time

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"Sometimes the only scientific answer we can give is 'We don't know."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

"Today I think they don't teach the principle of least action in school because then everybody would go and study physics."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

"There are no exact metaphors, not for quantum mechanics and not for anything else, because if they were exact, they wouldn't be metaphors."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

"Instead of thinking of ourselves as selecting possible futures, I suggest we remain curious about what's to come and strive to learn more about ourselves and the universe we inhabit."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

Similar categories in Katie Mack's The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) book and Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time

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"It also means that cosmology doesn’t really have a well-defined concept of “now."

-Katie Mack, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)

"We are a species poised between an awareness of our ultimate insignificance and an ability to reach far beyond our mundane lives, into the void, to solve the most fundamental mysteries of the cosmos."

-Katie Mack, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)

"In the meantime, we'll continue on, making new pathc through the woods to see what we might find hiding there. Someday, deep in the unknown wilderness of the distant future, the Sun will expand, the …"

-Katie Mack, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)

"You may have heard that "we are made of stardust" (or "star stuff" if you're Sagan), and this is absolutely true if we measure by mass. All the heavier elements in your body—oxygen, carbon, nitrogen,…"

-Katie Mack, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)

Similar categories in Dean Buonomano's Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time book and Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time

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"Neuroscientists rarely have to grapple with the issue of presentism versus existentialism. But in practice, neuroscientists are implicitly presentists. They view the past, present, and future as fund…"

-Dean Buonomano, Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time

Similar categories in Giorgio Parisi's In a Flight of Starlings book and Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time

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"In the sciences and in poetry, there is hardly a trace in the finished product of the arduous work that the creative process has demanded, or of the doubts and hesitations that have been overcome in …"

-Giorgio Parisi, In a Flight of Starlings

Similar categories in Brian Greene's Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe book and Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time

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"Messy arrangements far outweigh orderly ones."

-Brian Greene, Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

"The point being that everything emerges from the same collection of ingredients governed by the same physical principles. And those principles, as attested to by a few hundred years of observation, e…"

-Brian Greene, Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

Similar categories in Lee Smolin's Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum book and Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time

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"Put this way, almost every physical observable potentially conveys information. This definition would imply that "information" is present every time the values of two physical variables are correlate…"

-Lee Smolin, Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum