Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.
ALAN LIGHTMANThe history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.
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Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order.
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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.
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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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If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and running a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women in Cambodia.
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The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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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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They came back to the nest in the middle of April. They take separate vacations in the winter – the mother and father.
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I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
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It’s the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.
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For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world, a feeling of shared connection with other living things, a desire to help people less fortunate than ourselves.
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Children curse their parents for their wrinkled skin and hoarse voices. Those now old children also want to stop time, but at another time. They want to freeze their own children at the center of time.
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Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.
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After a while the car becomes just another thing that he owns. Moreover, when his neighbor next door buys two cars, in an instant our man feels wretchedly poor and deprived.
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In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.
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