Body time flows at its own variable rate, oblivious to the most precise hydrogen master clocks in the laboratory. In fact, the human body contains its own exquisite time-pieces, all with their separate rhythms.
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More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Don’t you feel something magical when you’re in love?… I do, I certainly do … but I think that feeling of magic is a hardwired psychological response. It’s a chemical thing in the brain.
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If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
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As a scientist, I don’t believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.
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In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
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Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
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Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
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Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree.
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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing.
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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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I value my correspondence with writers…
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The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.
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The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.
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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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I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can’t just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it’s really in how the technology is used.
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