Book Club: Carlo Rovelli - Rules are less important...

Please note this book club session will be online only. It’s okay to attend if you haven’t finished the book, but there will be spoilers. We hope you will try to get through at least some of the book, though, as it makes for a better discussion.

This time around, on the recommendation of someone who attended our last book club meeting (thanks!), we’ll be discussing There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness by Italian theoretical physicist and writer Carlo Rovelli. As you'll see from the description below, the book covers many different subjects and there should be plenty to discuss.

From Goodreads:

In this collection of writings, the logbook of an intelligence always on the move, Carlo Rovelli follows his curiosity and invites us on a voyage through science, history, philosophy and politics. Written with his usual clarity and wit, these pieces range widely across time and space: from Newton's alchemy to Einstein's mistakes, from Nabokov's butterflies to Dante's cosmology, from travels in Africa to the consciousness of an octopus, from mind-altering psychedelic substances to the meaning of atheism. Charming, pithy and elegant, this book is the perfect gateway to the universe of one of the most influential scientists of our age.

Read the review in The Guardian