"In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons, it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn't there. Or ignore what is. We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality. We try to connect. We try to find truth. We dream and we hope. And underneath all of these strivings, we are haunted by the suspicion that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the whole."

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Source : Alan Lightman (2014). “The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew”, p.5, Vintage

Alan Lightman

#Dream Quotes #Real Quotes #Order Quotes

“Time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore.”
“Burn a Bush cause for peace he no push no button. Killing over oil and grease, no weapons of destruction, How can we follow a leader when this a corrupt one?”
“I hate the amount of communication, the obligation that you have just by owning a phone.”
“[F]irst of all, be what you are.”
“The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it's failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005.”

Source : "POLITICO Q&A: Jim Sensenbrenner" by Lisa Lerer, www.politico.com. December 3, 2009.
“When I got married and had a child and went to work, my day was all day, all night. You lose your sense of balance. That was in the late '60s, '70s, women went to work, they went crazy. They thought the workplace was much more exciting than the home. They thought the family could wait. And you know what? The family can't wait. And women have now found that out. It all has to do with women, or the homemaker leaving the home and realizing that where they've gone is not as fabulous, or as rewarding, or as self-fulfilling as the balance between the workplace and the home place.”
“I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right.”

Source : "Rachel Johnson: 'I have a duty not to be boring'". Interview With Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2010.
“It would drive me crazy to be a guest in my own house.”

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