We’re plugged in 24 hours a day now. We’re all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not.
ALAN LIGHTMANI think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
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But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
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For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness.
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I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics.
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Just didn’t know whether I would finish the book much less for it to come close to what I intended. I think that for any novel you never know exactly how the book is going to turn out…
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The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
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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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I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie.
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it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn’t there. Or ignore what is.
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Some say it is best not to go near the center of time.
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Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
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The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
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I’ve taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it’s a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.
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Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree.
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It’s the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.
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In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final.
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