Jon Awbrey<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://neuromatch.social/@NicoleCRust" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>NicoleCRust</span></a></span> </p><p>❝Thus, what looks to us like a sphere of scientific knowledge more accurately should be represented as the inside of a highly irregular and spiky object, like a pincushion or porcupine, with very sharp extensions in certain directions, and virtually no knowledge in immediately adjacent areas. If our intellectual gaze could shift slightly, it would alter each quill’s direction, and suddenly our entire reality would change.❞</p><p>— Herbert J. Bernstein • “Idols of Modern Science”</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Aspect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aspect</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Facet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Facet</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Spine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spine</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Spicule" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spicule</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Spike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spike</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Quill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Quill</span></a></p>