Does Hilbert’s hotel (a hotel with infinitely many rooms) ever fail to accommodate new guests? Is there an infinity that is too large for Hilbert’s hotel?
Why does the equation that describes the average motion of water molecules also govern the ripples of spacetime?
Shiraz Minwalla in From Fluid Dynamics to Gravity and Back
How does one render an account of life that does justice to the complexity of its multiple dimensions, while at the same time representing it with a degree of unity?
Didier Fassin in Life: A Critical User's Manual
A view had gained ground among the reform-minded in Iran that a literate public was the key to a prosperous country, and that learning and the printed word could bring about progress.
Negin Nabavi in The Birth of Newspaper Culture in Nineteenth-Century Iran
