“The justice system can't be totally free of lies and distortion; after all, courts are chock-full of lawyers.” — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
“A bad idea, a wrong piece of information, a digital brain-altering virus can spread at the speed of light through the internet and quickly… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
“The key to a black hole's strange properties is the way it curves space-time. A black hole takes up no space at all, but… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
“In string theory, zero has been banished from the universe; there is no such thing as zero distance or zero time. This solves all… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
“Zero and infinity are eternally locked in a struggle to engulf all the numbers. Like a Manichaean nightmare, the two sit on opposite poles… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
“Skinnerian conditioning, crossed with social pressure, is now an ever-present invisible hand that tries to manipulate all of your actions on the internet. This… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
“In 1933, the Indian Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar realized that the Pauli exclusion principle had only a limited ability to fight against the squeeze of gravity.… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
“We tend to shy away from data that challenges our assumptions, that erodes our preconceptions. Getting rid of our wrong ideas is a painful… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
“Banishing zero also solves the infinity problems in general relativity. If you imagine a black hole as a string, no longer do objects fall… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
“With news and data that is tailored to our prejudices, we deprive ourselves of true information. We wind up wallowing in our own false… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
“Digital information has an unbelievably high R0 [basic reproductive rate], and this means that it's hard to stop once it emerges. It spreads from… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
“Christianity initially rejected zero, but trade would soon demand it. The man who reintroduced zero to the West was Leonardo of Pisa. The son… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
“Zero dwells at the juxtaposition of quantum mechanics and relativity; zero lives where the two theories meet, and zero causes the two theories to… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
![“Digital information has an unbelievably high R0 [basic reproductive rate], and this means that it's hard to stop once it emerges. It spreads from person to person - even those at a great distance - incredibly quickly, thanks to its high transmissibility and the high interconnectedness of digital…” quote by Charles Seife](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/08d/charles-seife-18021_quote_digital-information-has-an-unbelievably_744417.jpg)
