Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
In a world without future, each laugh is the last laugh. In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff.
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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
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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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It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions?
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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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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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After a while the car becomes just another thing that he owns. Moreover, when his neighbor next door buys two cars, in an instant our man feels wretchedly poor and deprived.
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To the point that I have to be careful that they don’t take over.
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I was in New York and had lunch with Oliver Sachs and compared notes with him – he is someone I really like.
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A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.
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There is a place where time stands still.
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The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past.
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In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads.
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It’s the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
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