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To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.

Alan Lightman

It’s the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.
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In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.
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Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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Everyone shares the same fate.
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While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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And if we can’t unplug from that machine, eventually we’re going to become mindless.
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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable.
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It’s the journeyto get there. It’s a way of thinking and it’s an intellectual curiosity, a desire to know how the world works, and to know what the fundamental principles of the world are, and to know our place in it.
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An unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.
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Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions?
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When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed outside their own mental and physiological processes.
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To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
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No one ever expects poetry to sell…
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But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of images that shift with each disturbance of a sudden breeze, a laugh, a thought? And if the shift is everywhere, how would we know?
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