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A review by mgerboc
Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution by Carlo Rovelli
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Yowza this is the first book I’ve read start to finish since having a kid and it was sort of a cumulative pileup of existential gut punches. Anyway, this was a wonderful and beautiful and optimistic and accessible reflection on the history and implications of quantum theory. So yeah, it’s sort of about everything and our place in the universe. Gorgeous.
“The things of nature are not collections of isolated elements in haughty individualism.”
- Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland
“The first term, the “I,” is the residue of a metaphysical error: the result of the common mistake of mistaking a process for an entity (Bogdanov - the individual is a bourgeois fetish)
- Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland
“The things of nature are not collections of isolated elements in haughty individualism.”
- Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland
“The first term, the “I,” is the residue of a metaphysical error: the result of the common mistake of mistaking a process for an entity (Bogdanov - the individual is a bourgeois fetish)
- Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland