One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an ins….

We often do not see what we do not expect to see..

One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones. In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to….

Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Othe….

Each time is true, but the truths are not the same..

All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction..

As a scientist, I don't believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it..

In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world..

In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as rigid and metallic as a massive pendulum of iron….

And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let go. The loved ….

In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely..

I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration. A book, especially a longer book, it's a different kind of f….

I'm still happy with the way Einstein's Dreams came out. That book came out of a single inspiration. I really felt like I was not creating the words,….

-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences..

My second novel, "Good Benito", was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it..

The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in term….

The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time..

The target of power is more interesting than its quantity..

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 ….

I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather than focus on any ….

We've lost our way, we have lost our centeredness. We don't have the time, literally, to think during the day. To listen to ourselves think. To think….