Janna Levin
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The one woman in the department.
The one woman in the department.
Well, you know the expression, I'm sure, the battles are so bitter in academia because the stakes are so low.
Well, you know the expression, I'm sure, the battles are so bitter in academia because the stakes are so low.
Well, you know the expression, I'm sure, the battles are so bitter in academia because the stakes are so low.
Children.
Children.
Children.
The best scientists I know often ask the simplest questions. First of all, there's probably some confidence there, but also they're never going to lie to themselves that they understand something that they don't understand.
The best scientists I know often ask the simplest questions. First of all, there's probably some confidence there, but also they're never going to lie to themselves that they understand something that they don't understand.
The best scientists I know often ask the simplest questions. First of all, there's probably some confidence there, but also they're never going to lie to themselves that they understand something that they don't understand.
So even this idea that Newton didn't understand the apple falling from the tree, had he lived another couple hundred of years, he would have invented relativity because he never would have lied to himself that he understood it. He would have kept asking this very simple question. And I think that there is this childlike beauty to that. Absolutely. Yeah.
So even this idea that Newton didn't understand the apple falling from the tree, had he lived another couple hundred of years, he would have invented relativity because he never would have lied to himself that he understood it. He would have kept asking this very simple question. And I think that there is this childlike beauty to that. Absolutely. Yeah.
So even this idea that Newton didn't understand the apple falling from the tree, had he lived another couple hundred of years, he would have invented relativity because he never would have lied to himself that he understood it. He would have kept asking this very simple question. And I think that there is this childlike beauty to that. Absolutely. Yeah.
I'll talk about those.
I'll talk about those.
I'll talk about those.
Yeah, absolutely. The discovery is going to come because somebody couldn't sleep at night and couldn't rest.
Yeah, absolutely. The discovery is going to come because somebody couldn't sleep at night and couldn't rest.
Yeah, absolutely. The discovery is going to come because somebody couldn't sleep at night and couldn't rest.