“The ability to understand something before it’s observed is at the heart of scientific thinking.”
Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist who has made ground-breaking contributions to the physics of space and time. He has worked in Italy and the US, and is currently the founding director of the quantum gravity research group of the Centre de physique théorique in Marseille, France. His books Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Reality Is Not What It Seems and The Order of Time are international bestsellers which have been translated into forty-one languages.
"Rovelli is a wonderfully humane, gentle and witty guide for he is as much philosopher and poet as he is a scientist" - John Banville