Janna Levin Quotes

#1. An idea sparked in the 1960s, a thought experiment, an amusing haiku, is now a thing of metal and glass.

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#2. The simpler the insight, the more profound the conclusion.

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#3. I would say the connection between art and science is very tenuous for me. It's just that I'm interested in both. I don't think that my interest in art affects the kind of science that I do.

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#4. The Earth isn't an infinite sheet that carries on for ever, but it doesn't have an edge, either. It's compact and connected.

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#5. 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 opinions, however weighty, won't persuade mother nature to alter her ways. Nature is never wrong.

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#6. Forever is a very long time, especially the bit towards the end.

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#7. Our propositions are true if they have the same structure as the world. Truth is a correspondence through structure.

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#8. I think there's a certain lyricism in the telling of a scientific story.

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#9. We have never observed infinity in nature. Whenever you have infinities in a theory, that's where the theory fails as a description of nature. And if space was born in the Big Bang, yet is infinite now, we are forced to believe that it's instantaneously, infinitely big. It seems absurd.

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#10. I'd like to convince you that the universe has a soundtrack and that soundtrack is played on space itself, because space can wobble like a drum.

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#11. From a contradiction you may deduce everything

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#12. To see some truths you must stand outside and look in.

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#13. His weakness in this game, and in life, is that he's never prepared for how others will act. They are predetermined but too complex to solve or predict, and there are rules that he is just no good at applying.

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#14. Topology and number theory are my faves.

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#15. Now, our Sun will not collapse to a black hole. It's actually not massive enough.

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#16. Ambiguity is very interesting in writing; it's not very interesting in science.

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#17. We have to wonder, if there is a multiverse, in some other patch of that multiverse are there creatures?

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#18. Black holes can bang against space-time as mallets on a drum and have a very characteristic song.

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