Entities & Happenings
The evolution of science suggests that
the best grammar for thinking about
the world is that of change, not permanence,
not of being, but of becoming.
Think of the world as made up of things,
of substances, of entities, of
something that is
—or
think of it as events, of happenings,
of processes, of something that occurs.
Something that does not last, that undergoes
continual transformation, that is
not permanent in time. . .
This notion of the world is the realization
of the ubiquity of impermanence,
not of stasis in motionless time.
by Carlo Rovelli
from The Order of Time
Riverhead Books, NY, 2018
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