paradoxes

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Biographer Sally Bedell Smith, author of “Prince Charles: the Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life,’’ described him as being constantly overshadowed by others in the family, despite his destiny.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2022

At first sight, this definition of size seems to lead to contradictions, which were elaborated by the Bohemian mathematician Bernard Bolzano in Paradoxes of the Infinite, published posthumously in 1851.

From Scientific American • Aug. 16, 2021

More recently, novelist Edmund White, a godfather of queer literature, delivered his ruminations in his 2016 book “The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2021

Diana Deutsch, a psychology professor at UC San Diego, discovered the original speech-to-song illusion in 1995 while working on her CD, Musical Illusions and Paradoxes.

From The Verge • Jun. 8, 2018

Paradoxes seemed to emerge everywhere if you could travel at the speed of light.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan