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A world with one month is a world of equality.

Alan Lightman

Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting. Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational.
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Bet Irrational Rational Scientific Stop
The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.
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Blurry Faster Get Go Hold Move Really Reason Something Thing World
It’s not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don’t count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.
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Affect Culture Large Necessary Number People
The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences.
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Book Creative Finish Good Let Novel Participate Raeder
In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.
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Artist Joyful Life Music Novel Paint Unpredictability World
Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?
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Anything Cloud Evaporate Ocean Pure Rain Replenishing
Novels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline.
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Discipline Instruction Instrument Law Novel Other Pedagogical Physics
Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn’t care one whit about us.
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Care Despite Felt Kinship Nature Oneness Strongly Us
We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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Expect Often See
It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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Impulse Sincerity World
The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
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Happy Joy One Pain Stuck Time Tragedy World
Body time flows at its own variable rate, oblivious to the most precise hydrogen master clocks in the laboratory. In fact, the human body contains its own exquisite time-pieces, all with their separate rhythms.
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Body Contain Exquisite Fact Flow Hydrogen Laboratory Oblivious Variable
I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society – which is true in all his books.
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Appreciate Book Ideas Person Society
Will never fail to show his love, will never become jealous, will never fall in love with someone else, will never lose the passion of this instant of time.
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Fall Instant Jealousy Love Passion Someone Time
We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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Centeredness Lost Way
I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas.
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Consider Essayist Fiction Myself Writer
Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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Book Complete Different Reader Sense Something Way
In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.
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Body Clock Electricity Future Law Machine Person Same Short
And if we can’t unplug from that machine, eventually we’re going to become mindless.
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Become Eventually Go Machine Mindless Unplug
I should have written books instead of reading them.
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Book Instead Read Should Write
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
Everyone shares the same fate.
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Everyone Fate Same Share
It’s the journeyto get there. It’s a way of thinking and it’s an intellectual curiosity, a desire to know how the world works, and to know what the fundamental principles of the world are, and to know our place in it.
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Curiosity Fundamental Intellectual Journey Place Think
The mother and father osprey stay together. It’s a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children.
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Brood Children Father Monogamous Mother Osprey Summer Through Watch
As a scientist, I don’t believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.
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Belive Discover Ever Exist God Prove Religion Scientist
All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.
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Belief Beneficial Consider Contradiction Faith Matter
Children curse their parents for their wrinkled skin and hoarse voices. Those now old children also want to stop time, but at another time. They want to freeze their own children at the center of time.
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Center Children Curse Parent Time Voice Wrinkle

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