Janna Levin Quotes

#1. A baby is a smiling, dancing moon in our hands just waiting to touch our hearts.

Debasish Mridha

#2. There would be no chance to get to know death at all ... if it happened only once.

Sogyal Rinpoche

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

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#4. When have you ever heard of a cantor or any artist turning anyone down when he is strongly urged to perform?

Sholom Aleichem

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

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

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#7. As Director of the FBI, I am sworn to ensure that my special agents have what they need to protect themselves and the citizens of this country, and that they are trained to properly use and properly deploy that equipment in the right times and places.

James Comey

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

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#9. I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props.

Talib Kweli

#10. Topology and number theory are my faves.

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#11. Goldilocks effect" - that everything is just right. (For the record, these three possible universes are known respectively as closed, open and flat.) Now,

Bill Bryson

#12. I love it when people are able to interpret thoughts and feelings on fabric or some kind of material.

Anne Hathaway

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

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#15. If you get too close to the sun, you will burn; if you get too far, you will freeze: this is how it is with passion.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.

C.S. Lewis

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

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#18. From a contradiction you may deduce everything

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#19. 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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#20. It's been the most creatively liberating thing I've ever done and so I'm bringing some of that mad enthusiasm to Marvel for the next couple of years as they let me loose on some Marvel Universe titles you'll be hearing about soon.

Mark Millar

#21. Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys.

Lance Henriksen

#22. 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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#23. Fellowshipping with God continually is to maintain your well-being

Sunday Adelaja

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

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

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#26. I believe that everyone in the world.
has
one poem.
that is their soulmate.

Nayyirah Waheed

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

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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. 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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#31. The simpler the insight, the more profound the conclusion.

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