We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
ALAN LIGHTMANIn a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared.
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Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself.
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We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality.
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But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of images that shift with each disturbance of a sudden breeze, a laugh, a thought? And if the shift is everywhere, how would we know?
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I spend a lot of time just listening to the ospreys. I watch them go through their life cycle. They spend the winter in South America.
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Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
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I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas.
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Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.
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“The Diagnosis” is by far my most ambitious book. I such great hopes for it… there was so much I wanted to do with the book. I was extremely insecure about it for several years.
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He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back?
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But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
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I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
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In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.
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You say, “Something important really happened here. I really had hold of something I was visited by the muse.” And that’s enough to make you continue the months and years to finish the whole book.
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To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
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I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather than focus on any one essay.
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