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“Look at it carefully, and ask yourself whether it is still, or moving.”
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“One day, while discussing this, he said to me: “But come on, Carlo.”
“Rovelli lives in Marseille, France.”
“If it is not still, ask yourself at what speed it is moving.”
“We say “this glass is empty,” when in fact it is full—of air.”
“We usually set a reference point implicitly, without saying so.”
“A child born in a village naturally thinks that the whole world is like that village.”
“A stone, a pen, a house—these are objects, things.”
“Reality is more complex and more varied than we think.”
“Is it not moving at a certain speed in relation to something else?”
“We instinctively mistake local peculiarities for universal truths.”
“There is no doubt that in the nature of his concept of movement everything is either moving or stationary.”
“The mistake is to believe that the concepts we have are necessarily adequate for understanding reality, even beyond the context in which these concepts were shaped.”
“A philosopher capable of precise conceptual analysis sees clearly what a certain concept of movement implies.”
“Allow me, before dealing with twentieth-century science, to dwell upon one more elementary fact.”
“But it does not work in the rest of the universe.”
“On Earth there are objects .”
“When we say “still,” we commonly mean still with respect to the Earth’s surface.”
“Consider, if you will, dear reader, an object that is near to you.”
“The answer to this question is well known to any good physics student.”
“I feel that there is a whole branch of contemporary philosophy that is trapped inside this mistake.”
“The mistake is to remain attached to a conceptual framework, without realizing that it might no longer be working in the light of what we can see when we look a little further.”
“Literary Hub » Carlo Rovelli on the Dangers of Getting Trapped Inside Your Own Conceptual Framework Literary Hub Craft and Criticism Literary Criticism Craft and Advice In Conversation On Translation Fiction and Poetry Short Story From the Novel Poem News and Culture History Science Politics Biography Memoir Food Technology Bookstores and Libraries Film and TV Travel Music Art and Photography The Hub Style Design Sports Become A Member Lit Hub Radio The Lit Hub Podcast Awakeners Fiction/Non/Fiction The Critic and Her Publics Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast Memoir Nation Beyond the Page First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing Thresholds The Cosmic Library Culture Schlock Reading Lists Reading Challenge Book Marks Best Reviewed Books CrimeReads True Crime The Daily Thrill Log In Craft and Criticism Fiction and Poetry News and Culture Lit Hub Radio Reading Lists Reading Challenge Book Marks CrimeReads Log In Carlo Rovelli on the Dangers of Getting Trapped Inside Your Own Conceptual Framework Lessons About Earth, Reality, and Universal Truths Via Scribner Carlo Rovelli September 21, 2026 Before arriving at the quanta to which this first lesson is devoted, allow me to begin with a simple observation.”