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Alan Lightman has 65 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present,…
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as rigid and…
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With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the…
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Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost…
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In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final. In…
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In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not…
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and…
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We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or…
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All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for…
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Uncertainty is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom.
— Deepak Chopra
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What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like…
— Henri Nouwen
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Irene Diamond's Fertile Ground is a provocative book. It stirs me to vigorous assent. It also triggers wide-eyed disbelief. . . .…
— Janet Lembke
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Why do we keep believing that we can control nature,even as it banishes us repeatedly from our homes in search of new…
— Maria Rodale
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Chaos theory, a more recent invention, is equally fertile ground for those with a bent for abusing sense. It is unfortunately named,…
— Richard Dawkins
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Yours is a race whose imagination is limited to its own small appetites. Greed, lust, envy - these are the motivating forces…
— David Gemmell
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
— K D Lang
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All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for…
— Alan Lightman
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Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.
— Marcus Buckingham
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Our minds work like a garden. It is fertile ground that accepts any and everything we plant. Good or evil, constructive or…
— Iyanla Vanzant
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I know it is possible not only to restore trust but to actually enhance it. The difficult things that we got through…
— Stephen Covey
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When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny.
— Allen West
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