I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I’d like to use my time more carefully.
ALAN LIGHTMANThe tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
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I think people all over the institution recognize that different ways of understanding are valuable. Artists may think in a different way than biologists or chemists, but you can learn something from that.
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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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With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.
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Like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.
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Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and longitudinal, so an object may participate in three perpendicular futures.
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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
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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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The Book of Telling tells of a woman’s journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process.
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All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.
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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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The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
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I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
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