I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary.
ALAN LIGHTMANThe mother and father osprey stay together. It’s a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children.
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The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
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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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Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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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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We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality.
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In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
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I spend a lot of time just listening to the ospreys. I watch them go through their life cycle. They spend the winter in South America.
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That someone else was speaking the words to me and I was just writing them down. It was a very strange experience. That can happen with a short book. I don’t think it could happen with a long book.
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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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Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.
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Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.
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Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant.
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Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real.
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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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In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.
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