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.
ALAN LIGHTMANI 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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For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.
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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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I would do something and let it sit for three months… just brood about and decide I needed to slightly change something here or there. Or one character wasn’t quite right. But I think everybody goes through this.
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I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
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Like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.
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I wouldn’t overall say that “The Diagnosis” is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It’s a modern tragedy.
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What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
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I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics.
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And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all.
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There is a place where time stands still.
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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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The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
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Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.
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I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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