Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us a uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy - since there could be absolutely no point, in all that background, at which would not exist a star. The only mode, therefore, in which, under such a state of affairs, we could comprehend the voids, which our telescopes find in innumerable directions, would be by supposing the distance of the invisible background so immense that no ray from it has yet been able to reach us at all.
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#The_Laws_of_Human_Nature by Robert Greene - Review
This is another book that I would classify under the 'fast-read' category because of its narration about human tendencies rat...
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For the first time I came across a book where the author tries to coerce us to read the 'prelude', which, of course, I did and ...
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The initial chapters would enter the cranium smoothly but midway the reader’s intuition might suggest that the author is determined to ...
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There is a perpetual myth about the brain that we do not use it fully to its capacity and that if we start using it to the fullest we might ...