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 away to be seen directly, even if you stare. But you can see them out of the corner of your eye because the cells on the periphery of your retina are more sensitive to light. Maybe truth is just like that. You can see it, but only out of the corner of your eye.
The simpler the insight, the more profound the conclusion. - Janna Levin
The simpler the insight, the more profound the conclusion.
- Janna Levin
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… - Janna Levin
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…
Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that… - Janna Levin
Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that…
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… - Janna Levin
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…
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… - Janna Levin
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…
I think there's a certain lyricism in the telling of a scientific story. - Janna Levin
I think there's a certain lyricism in the telling of a scientific story.
Topology and number theory are my faves. - Janna Levin
Topology and number theory are my faves.
Forever is a very long time, especially the bit towards the end. - Janna Levin
Forever is a very long time, especially the bit towards the end.
What we see of the universe is vast. We know that the universe is something like 90 billion light-years across. - Janna Levin
What we see of the universe is vast. We know that the universe is something like 90 billion light-years across.
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