The relationship between science and the humanities is two-way. Science changes our view of the world and our place in it. In the other direction, the humanities provide the store of ideas and images and language available to us in understanding the world.
ALAN LIGHTMANWe have a house on a very tiny island in Maine. Which is really my spiritual center. We’ve been going there for ten years, and it has no ferry service, no bridges, no telephone service. It’s really isolated.
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The second squirms and wriggles like a bluefish in a bay. The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along.
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Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.
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As human beings, don’t we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?
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If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
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Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
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I consider myself a spiritual atheist.
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No one ever expects poetry to sell…
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it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn’t there. Or ignore what is.
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The Book of Telling tells of a woman’s journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process.
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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
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For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed outside their own mental and physiological processes.
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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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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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