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They came back to the nest in the middle of April. They take separate vacations in the winter – the mother and father.

Alan Lightman

Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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Acid Bit Cerebellum More Sadness Transfix
I consider myself a spiritual atheist.
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Atheist Consider Myself Spiritual
We walk from room to room, look into the room that is lit, the present moment, then walk on. We do not know the rooms ahead, but we know we cannot change them. We are spectators of our lives.
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Ahead Moment Room Spectator Walk
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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Action Contemplate Future Imagine Person Result
I value my correspondence with writers…
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Correspondance Value Writer
If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
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Darkness Real Story Told
It’s the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.
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Country Lead Philosophy Republic
One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones.
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Cell How Live Metaphor One People Phone
I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
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Always Book Film Long Made Think
I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics.
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Author Law Play Second Spellbound Thermodynamic
I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather than focus on any one essay.
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Disparate Essay Guide Important Pick Power Say Seemingly Thought
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
There is a place where time stands still.
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Place Stand Still Time
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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Document Explode Held Immortality Mentioned Slight
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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Book Came Dream Happy Inspiration Out Person Single Still Way
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

They came back to the nest in the middle of April. They take separate vacations in the winter – the mother and father.

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