There are faint stars in the night sky that you can see, but only if you look to … - Janna Levin

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If the idea that my safety can only be enhanced by putting other people's privacy and safety in danger, then I don't want to be more safe.

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 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.

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The simpler the insight, the more profound the conclusion.

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

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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.

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

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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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