Janna Levin Quotes

• The simpler the insight, the more profound the conclusion.

  Janna Levin

  Profound, Insight, Conclusion

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• 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

  Estrellas, Ojo, Noche

  Janna Levin (2009). “A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines”, p.12, Anchor

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• Sam Harris describe sin miedo una emergencia moral e intelectual precipitada por fantasías religiosas: creencias equivocadas que crean sufrimiento, que racionalizan la violencia, que han puesto en peligro nuestra nación y nuestro futuro. Su argumento a favor de la moralidad, la honestidad y la humildad del ateísmo es galvanizador. Es un alivio que alguien haya hablado con tanta franqueza, con tanta pasión y a la vez con tanta racionalidad. Ahora, cuando surja el tema, como inevitablemente ocurre, puedo simplemente decir: Lean la Carta a una Nación Cristiana de Sam Harris.

  Janna Levin

  Christian, Religious, Honesty

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

  Janna Levin

  Divertido, Humor, Largo

  Twitter post from May 14, 2015

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• 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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  Mother, Clever, Believe

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

  Janna Levin

  Looks, Standing Out

  Janna Levin (2009). “A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines”, p.91, Anchor

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• 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

  Fuente: www.wbur.org

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

  Janna Levin

  Thinking, Stories, Certain

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• 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

  Fuente: www.wbur.org

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• Topology and number theory are my faves.

  Janna Levin

  Numbers, Topology, Theory

  Barnard Physics Mechanics PHYS BC2001, 2010.

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