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“Reviews of Einstein's Dreams”

“The relationship between science and the humanities is two-way. Science changes our view of the world and our place in it. In the other direction, the humanities provide the store of ideas and images and language available to us in understanding the world. The exploding star of A.D. 1054, the Crab Nebula, was sighted and documented by the Chinese, but nowhere mentioned in the West, where the Aristotelian notion of the immortality of stars still held sway. We often do not see what we do not expect to see.”

“Interview on NPR's Radio Lab about nature of science”

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“Lightman's work in Cambodia featured in The International Herald Tribune”

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Resonant Thoughts

"Just try and keep up with those feet of his sometime! Try and look graceful while thinking where your right hand should be, and how your head should be held, and which foot you end the next eight bars…"

— Fred Astaire

Music1899–1987

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"The idea that all problems either have a solution or can be shown to be pseudo-problems is not one I share."

— Raymond Geuss

Philosophy1946

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"She is a girl so I wouldn’t slap her. I would lock her in a room full of spiders and let her think about what she’s doing to the youth of America."

— Brandon Boyd

Music1976

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"I've reluctantly discarded the notion of my continuing to manage the portfolio after my death — abandoning my hope to give new meaning to the term "thinking outside the box."

— Warren Buffett

Business1930

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