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All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.

Alan Lightman

We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.
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Always Become Disembodied Nowhere Somewhere
I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Complementary Humanistic Look Scientific Think Way World
There are important differences which should be preserved, and in trying to do away with those differences we would lose something the same way as if we tried to make all religions one religion or all races one race.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Difference Important Lose Preserve Same Something
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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Book Character Pilot Strangle
A world with one month is a world of equality.
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Equality Month One Liner World
Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself.
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Dixxle Pace Proceed Technology
For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class – contemporary literature is what’s most useful.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Class Contemporary Craft Learn Literature Mist Student Try Useful Write
it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn’t there. Or ignore what is.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Hard Ignore Invent Real Sometimes Tell There
Children curse their parents for their wrinkled skin and hoarse voices. Those now old children also want to stop time, but at another time. They want to freeze their own children at the center of time.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Center Children Curse Parent Time Voice Wrinkle
The exploding star of A.D. 1054, the Crab Nebula, was sighted and documented by the Chinese, but nowhere mentioned in the West, where the Aristotelian notion of the immortality of stars still held sway.
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Document Explode Held Immortality Mentioned Slight
No one ever expects poetry to sell…
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Ever Expert Poetry Sell
I should have written books instead of reading them.
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Book Instead Read Should Write
It is true that the arts at MIT don’t have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.
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Amount Art Engineer Fund Same Science Status True
Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
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Bak Bend Circle Itself Suppose Time
I value my correspondence with writers…
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Correspondance Value Writer
There is a place where time stands still.
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Place Stand Still Time

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