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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.

Alan Lightman

The relationship between science and the humanities is two-way. Science changes our view of the world and our place in it. In the other direction, the humanities provide the store of ideas and images and language available to us in understanding the world.
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Between Humanity Place Relationship Science Two Way World
Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
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Illogic Justification Logic Postdiction Prediction
A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
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Absolute Consolation Time World
I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we’re required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection.
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E-mail Everything Fast Faster Food Goten Mentality Representative Think
I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society – which is true in all his books.
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Appreciate Book Ideas Person Society
So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.
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Amount Little Live Many Nothing So
Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return.
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Anything Give Love People Return Unconditional Want
In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of Lake Geneva, people look at their watches and take refuge in time.
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Boat Building Coffee Government House Look Refuge Time Watch
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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Core Idea Kernel Number Vague
The great ideas in science, like the Cro-Magnon paintings and the plays of Shakespeare, are part of our cultural heritage.
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Author Great Heritage Idea Paint Science
I would do something and let it sit for three months… just brood about and decide I needed to slightly change something here or there. Or one character wasn’t quite right. But I think everybody goes through this.
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Brood Character Direct Everybody Month Need Slight Something
The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy.
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Happy Joy No One Pain Stuck Time Tragedy World
Most people have learned to live in the moment.
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Earn Live Moment Most People
I should have written books instead of reading them.
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Book Instead Read Should Write
In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
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Each Moment Music World
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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Emotion Experience Good Imagination Novel Science Start

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