Ambiguity Quote by Janna Levin Download Open image “Ambiguity is very interesting in writing; it's not very interesting in science.” — Janna Levin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambiguity Interesting Science Very Writing
Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it. — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There are more… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
I think, as we all learn as a child, you have to learn to tolerate ambiguity better and I'm still terrible at it and… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I don't have a distaste for ambiguity, in fact, ambiguity is what I think life is all about. — Robert Rubin Copy Share Image
“I call that ambiguity,” I said. “Riddles, puzzles, double meanings, lost possibilities, the dark side to the light, the light side to the darkness,… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
everything is ambiguous. It's exciting, in a way, if you can tolerate ambiguity. I can't, but I'm taking a course where it's taught, in… — Sheila Ballantyne Copy Share Image
“Ambiguity is like a riddle. I like riddles. Why try to avoid riddles? It is a jigsaw puzzle you have to put together and… — Lucy Carter 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
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 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… — Janna Levin Copy Share
We have never observed infinity in nature. Whenever you have infinities in a theory, that's where the theory fails as a description of nature.… — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
The position is clear - there is no ambiguity in Sinn Fein's position. We, along with all the other parties, have signed up to… — Martin McGuinness Copy Share Image
Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive, and contain… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I blame my grandfather 100 percent for his oldest son's death. I don't think there's any ambiguity there. — Mary L. Trump Copy Share Image
Yet again, an ancient answer echoes across the centuries: Listen! Listen to stories! For what stories do, above all else, is hold up a mirror so that we can see ourselves. Stories are mirrors of human be-ing, reflecting back our very essence. In a story, we come to know precisely the both/and, mixed-upped-ness of our very being. In the mirror… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share
My path to wisdom began when I stopped pretending to know things I didn't know. When I explicitly admitted to the limits of my… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail big, in… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can't take positions that are closed. Everything I've ever… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I believe that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople. The concepts of science, in all their richness and ambiguity, can be presented without any compromise, without any simplification counting as distortion, in language accessible to all intelligent people. I hope that this book can be read with… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share
I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest him without ambiguity, and that if there is not, every imaginary sign of his existence might vanish : in short, let nature speak distinctly, or be totally silent, and I shall know what course to take. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
