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When they are on their cell phones they are not where their bodies are…they are somewhere else in hyperspace. They are not grounded.

Alan Lightman

I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.
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Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings.
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Arousal Chemical Ending Flow More never Sexual
Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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Essay Population Raed Serious Small Thinker Writer
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
If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
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Darkness Real Story Told
The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
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Go Move Sister We Where World
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
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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Book Comic Diagnosis Funny Modern Overall Tragedy
In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of Lake Geneva, people look at their watches and take refuge in time.
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Boat Building Coffee Government House Look Refuge Time Watch
Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.
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End Fact Have Impersonal Live Product Scientist
As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not.
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Contemporary Do Intervene God Know Law Long Physical Science Universe Violate Way
What I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet reflection on who we are, and where we’re going.
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Disturb Everything Faster Happen Less Quiet World
But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
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Experience Irrational Lead New Rational Thought
That someone else was speaking the words to me and I was just writing them down. It was a very strange experience. That can happen with a short book. I don’t think it could happen with a long book.
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Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
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Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn’t care one whit about us.
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Care Despite Felt Kinship Nature Oneness Strongly Us

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