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It is true that the arts at MIT don’t have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.

Alan Lightman

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What I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet reflection on who we are, and where we’re going.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

What I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet reflection on who we are, and where we’re going.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Everything Faster Less
There is a cultural diversity that’s very valuable, and it’s valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

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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Ay Cultural Valuable
There is a place where time stands still.

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There is a place where time stands still.
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Still
You say, “Something important really happened here. I really had hold of something I was visited by the muse.” And that’s enough to make you continue the months and years to finish the whole book.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

You say, “Something important really happened here. I really had hold of something I was visited by the muse.” And that’s enough to make you continue the months and years to finish the whole book.
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Happened Muse Really Something Visit
In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.
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Mechanical
In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.
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Joyful Unpredictability
I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie.
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Author Fabulist Long Such Write
The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

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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Dep Invent Know Seem Unknown Urge
In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Circle Every Handshake Precise Repeat Word
With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice.
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All Aunt Grandparent Infinite
As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not.
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Contemporary Do Intervene Know Long Violate Way
Sons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own…Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

Sons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own…Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Escape Free Immortality Own Some Son
They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

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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Case Eternity Even Fix Frozen
Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn’t care one whit about us.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

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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Despite Felt Kinship Oneness Strongly Us
I value my correspondence with writers…

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I value my correspondence with writers…
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Correspondance Writer
We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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Centeredness Way

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