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The mother and father osprey stay together. It’s a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children.

Alan Lightman

Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real.
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Different Direction Each Future Move Time
Writers are a loosely knit community – community is an overstated word. Writers don’t see each other very much.
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Community Lose Overstate Word Writer
I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics.
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Author Law Play Second Spellbound Thermodynamic
And since the human mind has a degree of infinity and imagination unlikely to be matched by a machine for a very, very long time, I don’t think that we will become the machines of the machines.
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Human Imagination Machine Match Mind Since Technology Unlikely
It is true that the arts at MIT don’t have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.
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Amount Art Engineer Fund Same Science Status True
I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.
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Correspondance Enough Some Stay Writer Written
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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Law Nature Order
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.
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E-mail First Friend Gone Hours Every Many Message Moring Spend Tell Through Too
As I understand it, a universe is a … well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.
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Inside Out Thing Total Understand Universe
I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.
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Borge Distorted Highly Interest Magic Realistic Truth Word
Novels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline.
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Discipline Instruction Instrument Law Novel Other Pedagogical Physics
Our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We’ve become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.
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Advance Imagination Revolution Sense Species World
We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.
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Always Become Disembodied Nowhere Somewhere
For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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Back Brood Doubt Look Movement People Predictable
All writers have roots they draw from – travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
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Draw Family Root Travel Work Writer
I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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Fascinate Intersection Long Religion Science Time

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