We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
ALAN LIGHTMANWe live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
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People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn’t there. Or ignore what is.
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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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We try to connect. We try to find truth. We dream and we hope. And underneath all of these strivings, we are haunted by the suspicion that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the whole.
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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.
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They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.
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Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.
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No one ever expects poetry to sell…
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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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Children curse their parents for their wrinkled skin and hoarse voices. Those now old children also want to stop time, but at another time. They want to freeze their own children at the center of time.
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Everyone shares the same fate.
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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
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Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea.
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In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
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Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.
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