Carlo Guerico Quotes

[...] she understood that nothing is less obvious in a man than that which seems unquestionable. ~ Louis De Bernieres

Being Slow means that you control the rhythms of your own life. You decide how fast you have to go in any context. If today I want to go fast, I go fast. If tomorrow I want to go slow, I go slow. What we are fighting for is the right to determine our own tempos. ~ Carlo Petrini

Most unfortunately, in the lives of puppets there is always a 'but' that spoils everything. ~ Carlo Collodi

What she had believed to be her future was now decomposing ten feet under the earth. ~ Antonio Scotto Di Carlo

The Second law of human stupidity: The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person ~ Carlo M. Cipolla

the particles are quanta of quantum fields; light is formed by quanta of a field; space is nothing more than a field, which is also made of quanta; and time emerges from the processes of this same field. In other words, the world is made entirely from quantum fields ( ~ Carlo Rovelli

Love is the synthesis of contemplation and action, the meeting-point between heaven and earth, between God and humanity. ~ Carlo Carretto

Science for me is very close to art. Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It's an intuition which turns out to be reality at the end of it-and I see no difference between a scientist developing a marvellous discovery and an artist making a painting. ~ Carlo Rubbia

Music is ... a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone. ~ Gian Carlo Menotti

We are made of the same stardust of which all things are made, and when we are immersed in suffering or when we are experiencing intense joy we are being nothing other than what we can't help but be: a part of our world. ~ Carlo Rovelli

When we talk about the big bang or the fabric of space, what we are doing is not a continuation of the free and fantastic stories that humans have told nightly around campfires for hundreds of thousands of years. It is the continuation of something else: of the gaze of those same men in the first light of day looking at tracks left by antelope in the dust of the savannah - scrutinising and deducting from the details of reality in order to pursue something that we can't see directly but can follow the traces of. In the awareness that we can always be wrong, and therefore ready at any moment to change direction if a new track appears; but knowing also that if we are good enough we will get it right and will find what we are seeking. That is the nature of science. ~ Carlo Rovelli

The future has an ancient heart. ~ Carlo Levi

The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others. ~ Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

The most credible answers are the ones given by science, because science IS the search for the most credible answers available, not for answers pretending to certainty. ~ Carlo Rovelli

A distinction between renewable and not renewable energy is academic. ~ Carlo Rubbia

Carlo Ginzburg proposed the notion that being ashamed of one's country, not love of it, may be the true mark of belonging to it ~ Slavoj Zizek

Fate has blessed me. ~ Gian Carlo Menotti

Are you persuaded of what you do or not? Do you need something to happen or not in order to do what you do? Do you need the correlations to coincide always, because the end is never in what you do, even if what you do is vast and distant but is always in your continuation? Do you say you are persuaded of what you do, no matter what? Yes? Then I tell you: tomorrow you will certainly be dead. It doesn't matter? Are you thinking about fame? About your family? But your memory dies with you,with you your family is dead. Are you thinking about your ideals? You want to make a will? You want a headstone? But tomorrow those too are dead, dead. All men die with you. Your death is an unwavering comet. Do you turn to god? There is no god, god dies with you. The kingdom of heaven crumbles with you, tomorrow you are dead, dead. Tomorrow everything is finished - your body, family, friends, country, what you're doing now, what you might do in the future, the good, the bad, the true, the false, your ideas, your little part, god and his kingdom, paradise, hell, everything, everything, everything. Tomorrow everything is over - in twenty four hours is death.

Well, then the god of today is no longer yesterday's, no longer the country, the good, the bad, friends, or family. You want to eat? No, you cannot. The taste of food is no longer the same; honey is bitter, milk is sour, meat nauseating, and the odor, the odor sickens you: it reeks of the dead. You want a woman to comfort you in y ~ Carlo Michelstaedter

And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all. ~ Jack Kerouac

What opens our minds and shows the limits of our ideas is an encounter with other people, other cultures, other ideas. ~ Carlo Rovelli

Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured. Chapter 25 ~ Carlo Collodi

Here, in the vanguard, beyond the borders of knowledge, science becomes even more beautiful - incandescent in the forge of nascent ideas, of intuitions, of attempts. Of roads taken and then abandoned, of enthusiasms. In the effort to imagine what has not yet been imagined. Twenty ~ Carlo Rovelli

Every field has its taboos. In algebraic geometry the taboos are (1) writing a draft that can be followed by anyone but two or three of one's closest friends, (2) claiming that a result has applications, (3) mentioning the word 'combinatorial,' and (4) claiming that algebraic geometry existed before Grothendieck (only some handwaving references to 'the Italians' are allowed provided they are not supported by specific references). ~ Gian-Carlo Rota

Each day a day goes by. ~ Carlo Goldoni

Hunger is the best cook. ~ Carlo Collodi

If we have no idea why a statement is true, we can still prove it by induction. ~ Gian-Carlo Rota

I believe that he who sows utopia will reap reality. ~ Carlo Petrini

Quantity is not necessarily synonymous with quality and brilliant ideas are not a function of the number of titles printed. ~ Carlo M. Cipolla

Very little mathematics has direct applications - though fortunately most of it has plenty of indirect ones. ~ Gian-Carlo Rota

Remember the past and work for the future...
But never forget to live today! ~ Carlo Jose San Juan

I think that the obscurity of the theory is not the fault of quantum mechanics but is rather due to the limited capacity of our imagination. When we try to "see" the quantum world, we are rather like moles used to living underground, to whom someone is trying to describe the Himalayas. Or like the men imprisoned at the back of Plato's cave. ~ Carlo Rovelli

Time sits at the center of the tangle of problems raised by the intersection of gravity, quantum mechanics, and thermodynamics. ~ Carlo Rovelli

The confusion between these two diverse human activities - inventing stories and following traces in order to find something - is the origin of the incomprehension and distrust of science shown by a significant part of our contemporary culture. The separation is a subtle one: the antelope hunted at dawn is not far removed from the antelope deity in that night's storytelling. The ~ Carlo Rovelli

The Cubists' belief in progress was by no means complacent. They saw the new products, the new inventions, the new forms of energy, as weapons with which to demolish the old order. Yet at the same time their interest was profound and not simply declamatory. In this they differed fundamentally from the Futurists. The Futurists saw the machine as a savage god with which they identified themselves. Ideologically they were precursors of fascism: artistically they produced a vulgar form of animated naturalism, which was itself only a gloss on what had already been done in films. 35 Carlo Carra. The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli. 1911 The Cubists felt their way, picture by picture, towards a new synthesis which, in terms of painting, was the philosophical equivalent of the revolution that was taking place in scientific thinking: a revolution which was also dependent on the new materials and the new means of production. ~ John Berger

Being aware that we may be wrong is different from claiming that it is senseless to speak of right and wrong. Recognizing diversity and taking seriously ideas that diverge from our own is different from claiming that all ideas are equally worthy. Knowing that a given judgment is born within a complex cultural context and is related to many others does not necessarily imply that we are unable to recognize it is wrong. ~ Carlo Rovelli

The fact of a leading organ of Evangelical thought being edited for two successive fortnights from Trouville and Monte Carlo was generally admitted to have been a mistake. ~ Saki