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Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.

Alan Lightman

In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.” “They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen to their heartbeats. They feel the rhythms of their moods and desires.”
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Body Clock House Keep Mechanical Time Two World
Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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Acid Bit Cerebellum More Sadness Transfix
I certainly believe there are forces bigger than ourselves, and that we should be searching, individually, for meaning in our lives. But I don’t believe there’s a supreme being, an intelligence that created everything.
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Believe Create Everything Individual Meaning Ourselves Search Supreme
In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
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Carefully Extremely Fiction Handle Idea Write
I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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Fascinate Intersection Long Religion Science Time
The Book of Telling tells of a woman’s journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process.
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Book Father Journey Life Process Secret Tell Uncover Woman
Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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Ago Billion Breathed Century Live Only People Two Year
In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of Lake Geneva, people look at their watches and take refuge in time.
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Boat Building Coffee Government House Look Refuge Time Watch
We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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Expect Often See
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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Accident History Phenomena Recast Science View
I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics.
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Author Law Play Second Spellbound Thermodynamic
As I understand it, a universe is a … well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.
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Inside Out Thing Total Understand Universe
Our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We’ve become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.
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Advance Imagination Revolution Sense Species World
While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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Ahead Back Brood Doubt Look People
For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class – contemporary literature is what’s most useful.
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Class Contemporary Craft Learn Literature Mist Student Try Useful Write
We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality.
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Both Conception External Impose Mind Order Reality

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