Carlo Rubbia

1934– · Italian particle physicist

Topics: science

• The scientist is, for me, the man who wants to read the book of Nature, who is as passionate about it as and more than a novel and has, among other things, a great characteristic, that of never exhausting himself. (p. 4)

  — Carlo Rubbia

• To know in the sense of Science is to predict. It is the ability to mathematize, calculate, measure, that allows modern man to build a bridge by predicting the mechanical behavior of the structure. (p. 2)

  — Carlo Rubbia