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.
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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As a scientist, I don’t believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.
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People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.
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There is a cultural diversity that’s very valuable, and it’s valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.
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Body time flows at its own variable rate, oblivious to the most precise hydrogen master clocks in the laboratory. In fact, the human body contains its own exquisite time-pieces, all with their separate rhythms.
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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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Everyone shares the same fate.
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Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn’t care one whit about us.
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Most people have learned to live in the moment.
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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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And of course, that makes it frightening to start a new book because you can’t really depend upon what you’ve done with previous books.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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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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He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back?
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