Edward Frenkel
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2,304 appearances
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first heard Apr 2023
last heard Apr 2023
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I appreciate paradoxes more.
And, you know, to use another philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher, said, a thinker without paradox is like a lover without passion.
A paltry mediocrity.
Right?
So, and, you know,
Niels Bohr said, in a similar vein, the great Danish also.
Something about Danes.
I think it all started with Hamlet.
He said, the opposite of a simple truth is a falsity.
But the opposite of a great truth is another great truth.
In other words, things are not black and white.
They're not...
And I would even venture to say the most interesting things in life are like that, the ones which are ambiguous.
Is an electron a particle or a wave?
It depends how you set up an experiment.
It will reveal itself as this or that, depending on how you set up an experiment.
This bottle, if you project it down onto the table,
you will see more or less a square.
If you project it onto a wall, you will see a different shape.
A naive question would be, is it this or that?
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