There is a place where time stands still.
ALAN LIGHTMANFor me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness.
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
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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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Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree.
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Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
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“Then there are those who think their bodies don’t exist. They live by mechanical time. They rise at seven o’clock in the morning. They eat their lunch at noon and their supper at six. They arrive at their appointments on time, precisely by the clock.
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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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So it’s really about two and a half months that I’ll feel like I can recover some silence in my life…which is so hard to find.
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You’ve made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
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Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
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I consider myself a spiritual atheist.
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To the point that I have to be careful that they don’t take over.
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There are the alpha waves in the brain; another clock is the heart. And all the while tick the mysterious, ruthless clocks that regulate aging.
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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
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That 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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An unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.
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