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  1. Alan Lightman _ Einstein's Dreams

    A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips without looking back.
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  2. Alan Lightman _ Einstein's Dreams

    His dreams have taken hold of his research. His dreams have worn him out, exhausted him so that he sometimes cannot tell whether he is awake or asleep.
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  3. Alan Lightman _ Einstein's Dreams

    But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of images shift with each disturbance of a sudden breeze, a laugh, a thought? And if the shift is everywhere, how would we know?
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  4. Alan Lightman _ Einstein's Dreams

    In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right an wrong demand freedom of choice, but if each action is already chosen, there can be no freedom of choice.
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  5. Alan Lightman _ Einstein's Dreams

    In fact, this is a world without future. In this world, time is a line that terminates at the present, both in reality and in the mind. In this world, no person can imagine the future.
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  6. Alan Lightman _ Einstein's Dreams

    If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
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  7. Alan Lightman _ Einstein's Dreams

    Indeed, what sense is there in continuing the present when one has seen the future?
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  8. Alan Lightman _ Einstein's Dreams

    Philosophers have argued without a trend toward order; time would lack meaning. The future would be indistinguishable from the past. Sequences of events would be just so many random scenes from a thousand novels. History would be indistinct, like the mist slowly gathered by treetops in evening.
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  9. Alan Lightman _ Einstein's Dreams

    If time and the passage of events are the same, then times move barely at all. It time and events are the same, then it is only people who barely move. If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
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  10. Alan Lightman _ Einstein's Dreams

    Aku ingin mendekati waktu karena aku ingin mendekati Tuhan."
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  11. Alan Lightman _ Einstein's Dreams

    Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.For the most part, people do not know they will live their lives over. Traders do not know that they will make the same bargain again. Politicians do not know they will shout from the same lectern an infinite number of times in the cycle of time. Parents treasure the first laugh from their child as if they will not hear it again. Lovers making love the first time undress shyly, show surprise at the supple thigh, the fragile nipple. How would they know that each secret glimpse, each touch will be repeated again and again and again, exactly as before?
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  12. Alan Lightman _ Einstein's Dreams

    Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and wait to live life? Or those who deny the future and live two lives?
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