There are places in the world where rules are less important than kindness : and other thoughts on physics, philosophy and the world / Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell.

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Rovelli, Carlo, 1956- author.

New York : Riverhead Books, 2022.

©2020

©2020

255 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Rovelli invites us on an accessible and enlightening voyage through science, literature, philosophy, and politics. Written with his usual clarity and wit, this journey ranges widely across time and space: from Newton's alchemy to Einstein's mistakes, from Nabokov's lepidopterology to Dante's cosmology, from mind-altering psychedelic substances to the meaning of atheism, from the future of physics to the power of uncertainty.

In English. Translated from the Italian.

Science -- Popular works.

Science -- Social aspects -- Popular works.

Essays.

Segre, Erica, translator.

Carnell, Simon, 1962- translator.

Ci sono luoghi al mondo dove più che le regole è importante la gentilezza. English

"Originally published in Italy ... by RCS Media Group S.p.A, Milan, 2018"--Title page verso.

"First published in English in Great Britain by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Random HouseLtd., London, 2020."--Title page verso.

Aristotle the scientist -- Lolita and the blue icarus -- Newton the alchemist -- Copernicus and Bologna -- My 1977, and that of my friends -- Literature and science: a continuing dialogue -- Dante, Einstein and the three-sphere -- Between certainty and uncertainty: a precious intermediate space -- Bruno de Finetti: uncertainty is not the enemy -- Does science need philosophy? -- The mind of an octopus -- Ideas don't fall from the sky -- The many errors of Einstein -- Some think, O King Hiero, that the grains of sand cannot be counted -- Why does inequality exist? -- Dramatic echoes of ancient wars.

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