I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary.
ALAN LIGHTMANHuman beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition.
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I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
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Rather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. … It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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I would do something and let it sit for three months… just brood about and decide I needed to slightly change something here or there. Or one character wasn’t quite right. But I think everybody goes through this.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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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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And if we can’t unplug from that machine, eventually we’re going to become mindless.
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I re-read a lot of books that I like a lot. There are some books that I try to reread every couple of years. A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life.
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As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not.
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Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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That’s the fine balance of a fiction writer…to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.
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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of Lake Geneva, people look at their watches and take refuge in time.
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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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