Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself.
ALAN LIGHTMANAuthenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
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The mother and father osprey stay together. It’s a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children.
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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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Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant.
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A world with one month is a world of equality.
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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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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics.
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A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That’s a sign of a good novel.
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Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence.
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There is a place where time stands still.
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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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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy.
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I consider myself a spiritual atheist.
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