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.
ALAN LIGHTMANTheir predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
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I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I’d like to use my time more carefully.
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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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Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return.
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I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary.
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It’s exciting having a student who is not used to expressing their emotional side and bringing that out in them and see that developing and helping to nurture that.
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A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile…But this happy sensation wears off.
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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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Just didn’t know whether I would finish the book much less for it to come close to what I intended. I think that for any novel you never know exactly how the book is going to turn out…
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It’s the journeyto get there. It’s a way of thinking and it’s an intellectual curiosity, a desire to know how the world works, and to know what the fundamental principles of the world are, and to know our place in it.
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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
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When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed outside their own mental and physiological processes.
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All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return?
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I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration.
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