The same world works differently for different observers. It's just common sense.The Order of Time, Carlo Rovelli
Our limited sense of time is not an imperfect sense of a fundamental aspect of reality, but an evolved response to very specific selection pressures in the history of life.The Order of Time, Carlo Rovelli
We inhabit time as fish live in water, in a dimension of before and after.The Order of Time, Carlo Rovelli
The world is made of events, not things.The Order of Time, Carlo Rovelli
The difference between past and future, between cause and effect, between memory and hope, between regret and intentionā¦in the elementary equations of the world, there is no such difference.The Order of Time, Carlo Rovelli
What we commonly call āthe present,ā and are made to think as if it were an object, is an operation that our consciousness performs, a feeling as ephemeral as it is compelling.The Order of Time, Carlo Rovelli
Time is nothing other than a measure of changeāit is not a thing-in-itself, but a mental construct that we use to make sense of the constantly changing world around us.The Order of Time, Carlo Rovelli
We are stories, contained within the twenty complicated centimeters behind our eyes: narrations.The Order of Time, Carlo Rovelli
It would be better to stop using the term āuniverseā altogether and say instead, āhappeningā. Everything is just happening, happening, happening....The Order of Time, Carlo Rovelli
The difference between things and events is that things persist in time; events have a limited duration.The Order of Time, Carlo Rovelli