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“Capacity of the human mind:
The optimistic position on the capacity of the human mind vis-à-vis the cosmos was nicely summed up by Emily Dickinson. “The Brain—is wider than the Sky—,” she wrote sometime around 1862, a generation before Einstein was born:
For—put them side by side—
The one the other will contain
With ease—and You—beside
The optimistic position on the capacity of the human mind vis-à-vis the cosmos was nicely summed up by Emily Dickinson. “The Brain—is wider than the Sky—,” she wrote sometime around 1862, a generation before Einstein was born:
For—put them side by side—
The one the other will contain
With ease—and You—beside
— Kathryn Schultz, American journalist and author, Book Review: Schulz on Jim Holt’s Why Does the World Exist?, Vulture, July 8, 2012. (tnx johnsparker)
