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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 Lightman

It’s not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don’t count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.
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Affect Culture Large Necessary Number People
We’re plugged in 24 hours a day now. We’re all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not.
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Big Conscious Machine Not Now Part Plug
Everyone shares the same fate.
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Everyone Fate Same Share
For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world, a feeling of shared connection with other living things, a desire to help people less fortunate than ourselves.
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Belief Include Larger Ourselves Spirituality Thing
We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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Expect Often See
Don’t you feel something magical when you’re in love?… I do, I certainly do … but I think that feeling of magic is a hardwired psychological response. It’s a chemical thing in the brain.
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Feel Love Magical Something
A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer – in the form of a review or something.
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Desert Footprint Man Occasion One Someone Something Then Writer
I believe that we need to slow down.
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Believe Down Need Slow
We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
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Highly Live Need Polarized Respectful Society Try Understand Way
If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.
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Book Character Pilot Strangle
A world with one month is a world of equality.
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Equality Month One Liner World
Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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Ago Billion Breathed Century Live Only People Two Year
The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past.
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Action Argument Consequence Future Need Uncertain
We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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Centeredness Lost Way
With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice.
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Advice Alive All Aunt Come Die Generation Grandparent Great Infinite Offer Relative
To the point that I have to be careful that they don’t take over.
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Careful Over Point Take

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.

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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.

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