What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
ALAN LIGHTMANWriters read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we’re required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection.
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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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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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In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared.
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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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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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But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
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Like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.
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I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.
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I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
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To the point that I have to be careful that they don’t take over.
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I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country… people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force.
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I have a family and you know very well the time that that takes. That’s good time. I have a couple hobbies. I’m a runner and play tennis. In the summer my family and I uproot ourselves and go live in Maine for the summer.
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We try to connect. We try to find truth. We dream and we hope. And underneath all of these strivings, we are haunted by the suspicion that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the whole.
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There is a place where time stands still.
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