In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
ALAN LIGHTMANWe feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall.
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I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.
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The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
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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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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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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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We walk from room to room, look into the room that is lit, the present moment, then walk on. We do not know the rooms ahead, but we know we cannot change them. We are spectators of our lives.
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Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
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Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
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And if we can’t unplug from that machine, eventually we’re going to become mindless.
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Each person knows that somewhere is recorded the moment she was born, the moment she took her first step, the moment of her first passion, the moment she said goodbye to her parents.
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Originality is also very important to a writer. And all of the writers I’ve mentioned, of course, are original, but it’s important to me that every book that I do be really a completely fresh and new look at the world.
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Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
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It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning.
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As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious belief that would, in my view, be compatible with science.
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Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself.
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