I would bet most people don’t have thirty minutes in a day where they can just sit down and think. Or maybe they don’t have to be sitting, they can be walking.
ALAN LIGHTMANIs 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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As a scientist, I don’t believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.
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And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let go.
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We feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall.
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There is a cultural diversity that’s very valuable, and it’s valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.
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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence.
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Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
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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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Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.
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No one ever expects poetry to sell…
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I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
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In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.
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I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
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The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
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I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics.
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