Excellence Reporter: Carlo, what is the meaning of life?

Carlo Rovelli: I never understood what does this question mean. I do not ask what is the “meaning of the stars”: I just like the stars. I do not ask what is the “meaning of my girlfriend”: I just love her. She means to me, because when I see her I am happy. So is life.

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~Carlo Rovelli, physicist, writer. He is among the founders of the loop quantum gravity theory.

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