
Janna Levin on Seeing and Hearing Black Holes
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The Obsessive Quest for Something Worth Questing For
"It's not just about madness. It can be the obsessive quest for something worth questing for, as in the case of the gravitational wave hunters," he says. "I think i was raised on the simple hero worship as a grad student and undergraud in physics, and it's, it's dangerous." He adds: 'The greeks gave us a lot of really good stuff - one of the good ideas they gave us was of the tragic hero'
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