The mother and father osprey stay together. It’s a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children.
ALAN LIGHTMANSo it’s really about two and a half months that I’ll feel like I can recover some silence in my life…which is so hard to find.
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Each person knows that somewhere is recorded the moment she was born, the moment she took her first step, the moment of her first passion, the moment she said goodbye to her parents.
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
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What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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So it’s really about two and a half months that I’ll feel like I can recover some silence in my life…which is so hard to find.
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At every point of decision, the world splits into three worlds, each with the same people, but different fates for those people. In time, there are an infinity of worlds.
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it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn’t there. Or ignore what is.
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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can’t just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it’s really in how the technology is used.
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Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and wait to live life? Or those who deny the future and live two lives?
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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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Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
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