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… — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
“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… — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
It would be kind of magical if we were just happening to be able to see right to some boundary and then something crazy… — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
“We are all caught in the stream of a complicated legacy - a proof of the limits of human reason, a proof of our boundlessness. A declaration that were were down here on this crowded, lonely planet, a declaration that we mattered, we living clumps of ash, that each of us was once somebody, that we strove for what we… — Janna Levin Copy Share
Black holes can bang against space-time as mallets on a drum and have a very characteristic song. — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
Now, our Sun will not collapse to a black hole. It's actually not massive enough. — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
Ambiguity is very interesting in writing; it's not very interesting in science. — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
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… — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
I think there's a certain lyricism in the telling of a scientific story. — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
“Maybe truth is just like that. You can see it, but only out of the corner of your eye. Adele never demands of him any actual conversation. She seems to understand that she is there to keep time and drown out the alarm of more individuated noises. The clink of a pin drop that can fray his nerves, the grinding… — Janna Levin Copy Share
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… — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
