In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,
ALAN LIGHTMANTornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.
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And if we can’t unplug from that machine, eventually we’re going to become mindless.
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Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.
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The exploding star of A.D. 1054, the Crab Nebula, was sighted and documented by the Chinese, but nowhere mentioned in the West, where the Aristotelian notion of the immortality of stars still held sway.
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I re-read a lot of books that I like a lot. There are some books that I try to reread every couple of years. A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life.
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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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I have a number of vague ideas where I just have the core or kernel of the idea. I feel like I need some time for my mind to fill up again. I feel empty. Right now.
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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
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If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.
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Each person knows that somewhere is recorded the moment she was born, the moment she took her first step, the moment of her first passion, the moment she said goodbye to her parents.
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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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I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration.
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There is a place where time stands still.
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Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
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The Book of Telling tells of a woman’s journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process.
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