In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
ALAN LIGHTMANFor me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world, a feeling of shared connection with other living things, a desire to help people less fortunate than ourselves.
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When I used to play golf. It’s a terrible miserable game. It’s incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots off in the woods, in the water…
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I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration.
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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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The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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Some say it is best not to go near the center of time.
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But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
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If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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I value my correspondence with writers…
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And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence.
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Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing.
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The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.
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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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Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.
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I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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