As a scientist, I don’t believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.
ALAN LIGHTMANIn a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared.
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The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
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We’re plugged in 24 hours a day now. We’re all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not.
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It is true that the arts at MIT don’t have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.
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A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.
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In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.
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The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
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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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While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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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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The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
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The mother and father osprey stay together. It’s a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children.
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Just didn’t know whether I would finish the book much less for it to come close to what I intended. I think that for any novel you never know exactly how the book is going to turn out…
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Rather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. … It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea.
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