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Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself.

Alan Lightman

We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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Expect Often See
I’m still happy with the way Einstein’s Dreams came out. That book came out of a single inspiration. I really felt like I was not creating the words, that I was hearing the words.
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Book Came Dream Happy Inspiration Out Person Single Still Way
When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed outside their own mental and physiological processes.
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Clock Crisp First Interval Invent Make Mechanical Time
We don’t have the time, literally, to think during the day. To listen to ourselves think. To think about where we are going, who we are, what’s important.
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During Important Listen Ourselves Thing Time
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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E-mail Philosophy Position Taken
In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
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Carefully Extremely Fiction Handle Idea Write
In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
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Dimension Space Three Time World
A world with one month is a world of equality.
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Equality Month One Liner World
A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it’s a good starting place for me.
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Emotion Experience Good Imagination Novel Science Start
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
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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Belief Include Larger Ourselves Spirituality Thing
To the point that I have to be careful that they don’t take over.
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Careful Over Point Take
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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Book Close Come Exact Intend Novel Think
Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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Acid Bit Cerebellum More Sadness Transfix
While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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Ahead Back Brood Doubt Look People
I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
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Lift Principle Reach Some Subconscious

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