Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
ALAN LIGHTMANThe future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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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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With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.
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Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
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In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.
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The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
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They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.
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Illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the center of time, its vibrations slowed to echoes in vast canyons, its intensity reduced to the faint glow of fireflies.
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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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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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Our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We’ve become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.
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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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I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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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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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy.
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One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones.
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