Julian > Julian's Quotes

“We have a hundred billion neurons in our brains, as many as there are stars in a galaxy, with an even more astronomical number of links and potential combinations through which they can interact. We are not conscious of all of this. “We” are the process formed by this entire intricacy, not just by the little of it of which we are conscious.”
― Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

“When we say that human behaviour is unpredictable, we are right, because it is too complex to be predicted, especially by ourselves. Our intense sensation of internal liberty, as Spinoza acutely saw, comes from the fact that the ideas and images which we have of ourselves are much cruder and sketchier than the detailed complexity of what is happening within us. We are the source of amazement in our own eyes”
― Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

“The difference between past and future only exists when there is heat. The fundamental phenomenon that distinguishes the future from the past is the fact that heat passes from things that are hotter to things that are colder.”
― Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

“Electrons, quarks, photons, and gluons are the components of everything that sways in the space around us. They are the “elementary particles” studied in particle physics.”
― Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

“There is not an “I” and “the neurons in my brain.” They are the same thing.”
― Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics