Janna Levin famous quotes

03-16-2025

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.
-- Janna Levin

#Mother #Clever #Believe
The simpler the insight, the more profound the conclusion.
-- Janna Levin

#Profound #Insight #Conclusion
To see some truths you must stand outside and look in.
-- Janna Levin

#Looks #Standing Out
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.
-- Janna Levin

#Stars #Eye #Night
Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have endangered our nation and our future. His argument for the morality, the honesty, and the humility of atheism is galvanizing. It is a relief that someone has spoken so frankly, with such passion yet such rationality. Now when the subject arises, as it inevitably does, I can simply say: Read Sam Harrisâ€™ Letter to a Christian Nation.
-- Janna Levin

#Christian #Religious #Honesty
Topology and number theory are my faves.
-- Janna Levin

#Numbers #Topology #Theory
Forever is a very long time, especially the bit towards the end.
-- Janna Levin

#Funny #Humor #Long
What we see of the universe is vast. We know that the universe is something like 90 billion light-years across.
-- Janna Levin

#Light #Years #Billions
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 galaxies ceased to exist. I mean, that just seems nuts.
-- Janna Levin

#Crazy #Mean #Nuts
I think there's a certain lyricism in the telling of a scientific story.
-- Janna Levin

#Thinking #Stories #Certain

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