"We are producing our reality through the #stories we choose to tell & the #metaphors that we use to narrate them."

"I realized ... #education by science is also a kind of education by #poetry.

And if you are willing to feel at home with the strange wonder that is our cosmos, to grapple with the abstract, then you are better positioned to resist those who are hoping to take you for a ride ..."

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, author of The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie

https://lithub.com/where-physics-meets-poetry-on-language-and-the-power-of-metaphor/

#Language #Science #Physics #Chanda_Prescod_Weinstein #Communication #Metaphor

Where Physics Meets Poetry: On Language and the Power of Metaphor

When I was 16 years old, my beloved college counselor told me that it was a good thing I wanted to be a physicist because I wasn’t much of a writer. We were close—I had her home phone number for em…

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