The trouble with quantum mechanics isn't that it's strange. Strangeness is OK. The world is a strange place.If our theories weren't weird, they wouldn't be able to account for what we see.
If you say it, you will be thrown out of the room, so much as, I want to add a little depth and a little strangeness to that particular conversation. So certainly, I don't think there's anything wrong with like, a cisguy coming to a new understanding of his relationship with women
It was like other forces were taking over. The real strangeness , for me, was, as I say, meeting George at Elstree Studios to talk about Episode I. And he said,
is that this is going to end in a strange place. And creating strangeness in a film is complicated, partly because like Jeff's novel, it has to be original. And so we had to find out where we sourced that strangeness .
That was part of the question. And also strangeness itself has a kind of diminishing return. So if you start a story strange and end it strange, by the time you get to the end you're kind of acclimatized
So if you start a story strange and end it strange, by the time you get to the end you're kind of acclimatized to the strangeness and it's actually lost the quality that you specifically wanted at the end. So hence suburbia, starting in a suburban setting, and progressively giving a film a nudge forward
go for it. Be strange. Celebrate your strangeness , your Googlyness. Thank you very much.
Browning doesn't know Arabic, but he's got a sense of what Arabic is like, and he tries to write his English in such a way that it has a kind of strangeness about it. So for instance, the speaker, instead of saying, "I arrived at Jericho," the speaker will say, "My journeyings were brought to Jericho."
For instance, there will be a film set in north of England where people are speaking English with say a Liverpool accent and in various dialectal ways. And there's also the strangeness of saying the grass is blue.
And if you see how that's done, it's a pretty, relatively dirty system that's not like this. And I know that adds to kind of strangeness of this, it feels really weird that it would be like this but that would suggest there wouldn't be any issues with sickness or anything.
And creating strangeness in a film is complicated, partly because like Jeff's novel, it has to be original. And so we had to find out where we sourced that strangeness . That was part of the question.
Because it's really what I do on a day-to-day basis. I feel like I am helping us recover from the strangeness of the middle of the 20th century. So we had-- and this kind of pertains, in a way, to your business-- we had a huge difference between what 1920
a driving force in the sense of awe and wonder that powers science and artists and spirituality is a sense that there's a fundamental strangeness . Things are so overwhelmingly complex and beautiful and chaotic There's a strangeness , there's a weirdness to knowing and experiencing something like infinite potentials, having a sense of meaning.
There's a way in which this optimization approach is a mechanization approach. And what people who come from a rational point of view, they want to be dismissive and say, "No, I don't need to feel the strangeness or weirdness. I don't need to include that into my models because it's all a machine at the end of the day." Now, I'm not saying it's not mechanistic.
I think there are ways in which these things work, but the mystery is like I actually think when we end up developing an understanding of all these things, it will be In service of pointing out the strangeness . Yeah. There's a weirdness to human nature.
So where did it come from? Exercise, natural brilliance, and a little bit of strangeness , I think. But that's probably true of all of us.
For instance, there will be a film set in north of England where people are speaking English with say a Liverpool accent and in various dialectal ways. But when you're in a more literary realm, that kind of strangeness is something that people can get interested in and enjoy.
For instance, there will be a film set in north of England where people are speaking English with say a Liverpool accent and in various dialectal ways. Which is to say, there's the creative kind of translation which relishes difference and strangeness , and can be about me manifesting my particularity
Like, people would feel that way about me. It's very strange. And I don't think the strangeness really goes away.
at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Anand is here today to talk to us about her recent book, "The Mind Electric, A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains," in which she demonstrates the compelling paradox at the heart of neurology, that even the most peculiar symptoms can show us something universal about ourselves as humans.
I'll end by saying something perhaps poetic, but I hope it's pregnant and gives the listeners a sense of all that this could possibly imply, which is a driving force in the sense of awe and wonder that powers science and artists and spirituality is a sense that there's a fundamental strangeness . Things are so overwhelmingly complex and beautiful and chaotic There's a strangeness , there's a weirdness to knowing
What has a party atmosphere to it? And then when he's getting drunk, and it's getting a little bit edgy, what has strangeness and dissonance? But when they dance, we were worried that there'd be a distractedness.
How weird it was, I think, kind of put people off when it first came out. And now, we kind of like that as a culture, the strangeness , the idiosyncrasy, the kind of obsession that we see. This resonates with modern viewers.
And that was her story looking for her pilot's licence. And just taking advantage of the beautiful, sad oddity, funny, strangeness of this environment became a great journey for all of us.
Greg Sanders: Right. Jennifer Egan: I looked like me, but I think I just felt the strangeness and the newness of it. And I think it was especially vivid because this was all happening in San Francisco
Cass had experienced it even as a boy, lying in bed and thinking his way into the sense of the strangeness of being just this.