It is true that the arts at MIT don’t have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
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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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In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
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Children grow rapidly, forget the centuries-long embrace from their parents, which to them lasted but seconds. Children become adults, live far from their parents, live their own houses, learn ways of their own, suffer pain, grow old.
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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.
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As human beings, don’t we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?
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Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?
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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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An unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.
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If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.” “They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen to their heartbeats. They feel the rhythms of their moods and desires.”
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The second squirms and wriggles like a bluefish in a bay. The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along.
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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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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
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