Like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.
ALAN LIGHTMANThe world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
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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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I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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The loved one will never take his arms from where they are now, will never give back the bracelet of memories, will never journey afar from his lover, will never place himself in danger of self-sacrifice.
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No one ever expects poetry to sell…
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The first is as rigid and metallic as a massive pendulum of iron that swings back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
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Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?
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It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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We feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall.
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I should have written books instead of reading them.
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In a world without future, each laugh is the last laugh. In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff.
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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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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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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 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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