Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].
ALAN LIGHTMANScientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.
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In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.
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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.
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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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I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie.
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In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.
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What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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As I understand it, a universe is a … well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.
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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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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy.
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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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Rather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. … It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
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Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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