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Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.

Alan Lightman

For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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Back Brood Doubt Look Movement People Predictable
We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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Centeredness Lost Way
I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
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Lift Principle Reach Some Subconscious
Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
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Authenticity Consciousness Essay Lift Sincerity
We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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Expect Not Often See
One day I’m going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask what else I do, I feel like this is part of what I do….is to watch these birds.
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Bloodstream Book Day Deep Gom Got One Osprey Real Write
Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant.
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Decision Event Glance Happen Lose Occur Reality
And if we can’t unplug from that machine, eventually we’re going to become mindless.
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Become Eventually Go Machine Mindless Unplug
The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
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Being Belief Disbelief Faith Matter
One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones.
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Cell How Live Metaphor One People Phone
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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Butterfly Case Contentment Eternity Even Fix Frozen
For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness.
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Consciousness Interest Most Problem Science Unsolve
Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
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Clarity Right See Wrong
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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Absolute Consolation Time World
And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let go.
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Build Embrace Frozen Go Kiss Let Lover Place See Shadow Stand
All writers have roots they draw from – travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
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Draw Family Root Travel Work Writer

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