Quotes by Janna Levin

About Janna Levin:

Janna J. Levin is an American theoretical cosmologist. She earned a PhD in theoretical physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993, and a Bachelor of Science in Astronomy and Physics with a concentration in Philosophy, from Barnard College in 1988. Much of her work deals with looking for evidence to support the proposal that our universe might be finite in size due to its having a nontrivial topology. Other work includes black holes and chaos theory. Since January 2004, she has been a professor in astronomy and physics at Barnard College of Columbia University.
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I would say the connection between art and science is very tenuous for me. It's just that I'm interested in both. I don't think that my interest in art affects the kind of science that I do.

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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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As the blood poured from his tattered heart into the open air and his brain suffocated, all those incomplete thoughts of Wittgenstein decayed with the dying neurons. Neural connections in the gray matter storing memories and ideas in their ordered co...

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Black holes can bang against space-time as mallets on a drum and have a very characteristic song.

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

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The Earth isn't an infinite sheet that carries on for ever, but it doesn't have an edge, either. It's compact and connected.

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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 a drum.

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Now, our Sun will not collapse to a black hole. It's actually not massive enough.

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We have to wonder, if there is a multiverse, in some other patch of that multiverse are there creatures?

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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. And if space was born in the Big Bang, yet is infinite now, we are forced to believe that it's instantaneou...

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Ambiguity is very interesting in writing; it's not very interesting in science.

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Author Bio

  • NameJanna Levin
  • DescriptionAmerican theoretical cosmologist
  • Born1967
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPhysicist
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship