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I’m still happy with the way Einstein’s Dreams came out. That book came out of a single inspiration. I really felt like I was not creating the words, that I was hearing the words.

Alan Lightman

Most people have learned to live in the moment.
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Earn Live Moment Most People
Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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Alone Each Get Person Stuck Time
There is a cultural diversity that’s very valuable, and it’s valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.
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Ay Cultural Different Diversity Look Valuable World
So it’s really about two and a half months that I’ll feel like I can recover some silence in my life…which is so hard to find.
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Feel Hard Life Month Really Silence Two
You’ve made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
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Beauty Feel Grand Grander Harmony Something
A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it’s a good starting place for me.
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Emotion Experience Good Imagination Novel Science Start
That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination,
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Achievement Age Fact Flood Great Image Megabit Planet So Throughout
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
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Alone Everyone Tragedy World
When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed outside their own mental and physiological processes.
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Clock Crisp First Interval Invent Make Mechanical Time
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
Body time flows at its own variable rate, oblivious to the most precise hydrogen master clocks in the laboratory. In fact, the human body contains its own exquisite time-pieces, all with their separate rhythms.
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Body Contain Exquisite Fact Flow Hydrogen Laboratory Oblivious Variable
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
Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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Acid Bit Cerebellum More Sadness Transfix
I should have written books instead of reading them.
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Book Instead Read Should Write
In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
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Birth Circle Every Handshake Kiss Precise Repeat Time Word World
In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,
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Baffle Constant Existence Mean Neuron Proud Search Temporary Three Trap

I’m still happy with the way Einstein’s Dreams came out. That book came out of a single inspiration. I really felt like I was not creating the words, that I was hearing the words.

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I’m still happy with the way Einstein’s Dreams came out. That book came out of a single inspiration. I really felt like I was not creating the words, that I was hearing the words.

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