Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.
ALAN LIGHTMANWill never fail to show his love, will never become jealous, will never fall in love with someone else, will never lose the passion of this instant of time.
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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious belief that would, in my view, be compatible with science.
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Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
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I’ve taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it’s a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.
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I have a number of vague ideas where I just have the core or kernel of the idea. I feel like I need some time for my mind to fill up again. I feel empty. Right now.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.
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Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.
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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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Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing.
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Continents of memory had been lost.
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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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No one ever expects poetry to sell…
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A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.
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The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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