Sometimes I Mistake This For

Our Brains Have Just One Scale, And We Resize Our Experiences To Fit.

I Learned Very Early On In Life That Not Everyone Wants To Hear Every Fact In The World, Even If You Want To Tell Them Everything You've Ever Read.

But I’ve Never Seen The Icarus Story As A Lesson About The Limitations Of Humans. I See It As A Lesson About The Limitations Of Wax As An Adhesive.

I Think The Really Cool And Compelling Thing About Math And Physics Is That It Opens Up Entry To All These Hypotheticals - Or At Least, It Gives You The Language To Talk About Them. But At The Same Time, If A Scenario Is Completely Disconnected From Reality, It's Not All That Interesting.

Space Is About 100 Kilometers Away. That’s Far Away—i Wouldn’t Want To Climb A Ladder To Get There—but It Isn’t That Far Away. If You’re In Sacramento, Seattle, Canberra, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Phnom Penh, Cairo, Beijing, Central Japan, Central Sri Lanka, Or Portland, Space Is Closer Than The Sea.