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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.

Alan Lightman

Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing by rain?
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Anything Love Person Possible Pure Want
With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.
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Background Border Especially Ground Meet Philosophy Question Science Theology
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
We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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Expect Often See
Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order.
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Law Nature Order
Most people have learned to live in the moment.
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Earn Live Moment Most People
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
Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.
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Different Life Point Reader Singer Something
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
The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
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Go Move Sister We Where World
The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past.
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Action Argument Consequence Future Need Uncertain
I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie.
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Author Fabulist Fiction Imagination Long Love People Such Write Time
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
Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree.
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Continent Disagree Eternal Fix Frozen Life
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
You can’t let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.
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Breathe Character Idea Just Live Mouthpiece Own

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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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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