All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.
ALAN LIGHTMANThat has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination,
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
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Like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.
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I’m still happy with the way Einstein’s Dreams came out. That book came out of a single inspiration. I really felt like I was not creating the words, that I was hearing the words.
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After a while the car becomes just another thing that he owns. Moreover, when his neighbor next door buys two cars, in an instant our man feels wretchedly poor and deprived.
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Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
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And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence.
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Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.
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Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.
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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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Each person knows that somewhere is recorded the moment she was born, the moment she took her first step, the moment of her first passion, the moment she said goodbye to her parents.
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They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.
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The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences.
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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,
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Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return.
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