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Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.

Alan Lightman

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
We have a house on a very tiny island in Maine. Which is really my spiritual center. We’ve been going there for ten years, and it has no ferry service, no bridges, no telephone service. It’s really isolated.
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Bridge Ferry Island Really Service Spiritual Telephone
In this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
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Acausal Helpless Scientist World
While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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Ahead Back Broot Look People Skip Time
No one ever expects poetry to sell…
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Ever Expert Poetry Sell
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
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
In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.
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Body Mechanical Time World
Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
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Each Same Time True Truth
Unfortunately, public debates do not have much room for subtlety. The audience wants a quick thrust at your opponent, not a slow and convoluted series of moves.
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Debate Much Public Room Subtitle Unfortunately
Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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Complete Different Every Reader Sense Something Way
We’re plugged in 24 hours a day now. We’re all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not.
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Big Conscious Machine Not Now Part Plug
I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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Fascinate Intersection Long Religion Science Time
Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.
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Across Course Culture Cut Emotional Experience Language Music
In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final.
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Death Each Friend Future Part World
A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
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Absolute Consolation Time World

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