Carlo: I went to see him in Princeton the meeting was complicated because I flew to Princeton but the airplane was delayed and delayed and delayed so I was supposed to arrive in the evening and sleep in a bed and breakfast. At seven o'clock the phone rings and he says Professor Wheeler is here asking if you would have breakfast with him. He took me around and it was quite a bit nice first thing he said is Carlo you know it's great to receive you here in Princeton maybe was his way of playing this game with everybody.
This week on the Penguin Podcast, Nihal is joined by writer, science populariser and theoretical, Carlo Rovelli.
He joins us to talk about the new English translation of his first book, Anaximander.
They all also discuss the singular genius of the philosophers of the past, the importance of questioning our reality, the significance of a typewriter in his writing career, and his admiration for the theoretical physicist John Wheeler.
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