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It’s not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don’t count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.

Alan Lightman

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
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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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable.
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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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A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer – in the form of a review or something.
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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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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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Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.
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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 Different Diversity Look Valuable World
In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.
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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
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I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
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The second squirms and wriggles like a bluefish in a bay. The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along.
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Along Bluefish Make Mind Predetrmine Second Squirm Unyield Wriggle
The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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And of course, that makes it frightening to start a new book because you can’t really depend upon what you’ve done with previous books.
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It’s not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don’t count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.

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