Occupation: College Professor Birth: 1967
To see some truths you must stand outside and look in..
Forever is a very long time, especially the bit towards the end..
I don't believe that math and nature respond to democracy. Just because very clever people have rejected the role of the infinite, their collective o….
I think there's a certain lyricism in the telling of a scientific story..
It would be kind of magical if we were just happening to be able to see right to some boundary and then something crazy happened beyond that, like ga….
Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that….
There are faint stars in the night sky that you can see, but only if you look to the side of where they shine. They burn too weakly or are too far aw….
What we see of the universe is vast. We know that the universe is something like 90 billion light-years across..
The simpler the insight, the more profound the conclusion..
Topology and number theory are my faves..