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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.

Alan Lightman

Illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the center of time, its vibrations slowed to echoes in vast canyons, its intensity reduced to the faint glow of fireflies.
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Canyon Chemical Diminish Faint Fireflies Glow Light More Red Sexual
I think once we stop asking questions like “what is the age of the universe,” or “how are the instructions of DNA carried out on a microscopic level,” once we stop asking questions like that, we’re dead.
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Dead Microscopic Question Stop Universe
It’s the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.
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Country Lead Philosophy Republic
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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Book Couple Every Like Lot Re-read Reread Some Try Year
You make one good shot and it brings you back the next time. With writing a long book there has to be at least one bit that has some magic in it that you can go back to.
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Back Bring Good Least Magic Next One Some Time
If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
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Ambition Hold Know Person Slowly Suffer
It’s a flow of chemicals and electrical currents, and it developed over millions of years in the process of evolution to aid in the procreation of the species.
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Develop Evolution Million Procreation Species Write
I’m humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I admire. I think he has been a big influence on me.
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Connect Enormous Grateful Humble Kafka Way
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
Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and wait to live life? Or those who deny the future and live two lives?
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Better Fulfil Future Libe Life One Seen Time World
I was in New York and had lunch with Oliver Sachs and compared notes with him – he is someone I really like.
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Compare Country Food Like Lunch Note Really Someone
A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That’s a sign of a good novel.
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Book Change Different Every Few Good Life Own Place Year
The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
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Being Belief Disbelief Faith Matter
I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can’t just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it’s really in how the technology is used.
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Opposition Technology Thing Think Use Wonderful
The first is as rigid and metallic as a massive pendulum of iron that swings back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
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Back First Forth Iron Massive Metallic Pendulum Rigid Swing
It’s exciting having a student who is not used to expressing their emotional side and bringing that out in them and see that developing and helping to nurture that.
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Bring Develop Emotional Excite Express Nurture Side Student Use

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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