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А́лан Ла́йтман — американский физик, эссеист и писатель. Профессор Массачусетского технологического института. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. Ноябрь 1948
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“The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.”

Alan Lightman книга Einstein's Dreams

Источник: Einstein's Dreams

“Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.”

Alan Lightman книга Einstein's Dreams

Источник: Einstein's Dreams

“Workers… rather have used their increased efficiencies and resulting increased disposable income to purchase more material goods. …Indeed, in a cruel irony, the workweek has actually lengthened. …More work is required to pay for more consumption, fueled by more production, in an endless, vicious circle.”

A Sense of the Mysterious : Science and the Human Spirit (2005), p. 200<!-- Pantheon Books isbn=0375423206 -->
Контексте: In the 1950s, academics forecast that as a result of new technology, by the year 2000 we could have a twenty-hour workweek. Such a development would be a beautiful example of technology at the service of the human being.... According to the Bureau of Statistics, the goods and services produced per hour of work in the United States has indeed more than doubled since 1950.... However, instead of reducing the workweek, the increased efficiencies and productivities have gone into increasing the salaries of workers.... Workers... rather have used their increased efficiencies and resulting increased disposable income to purchase more material goods.... Indeed, in a cruel irony, the workweek has actually lengthened.... More work is required to pay for more consumption, fueled by more production, in an endless, vicious circle.

“According to the Bureau of Statistics, the goods and services produced per hour of work in the United States has indeed more than doubled since 1950.”

A Sense of the Mysterious : Science and the Human Spirit (2005), p. 200<!-- Pantheon Books isbn=0375423206 -->
Контексте: In the 1950s, academics forecast that as a result of new technology, by the year 2000 we could have a twenty-hour workweek. Such a development would be a beautiful example of technology at the service of the human being.... According to the Bureau of Statistics, the goods and services produced per hour of work in the United States has indeed more than doubled since 1950.... However, instead of reducing the workweek, the increased efficiencies and productivities have gone into increasing the salaries of workers.... Workers... rather have used their increased efficiencies and resulting increased disposable income to purchase more material goods.... Indeed, in a cruel irony, the workweek has actually lengthened.... More work is required to pay for more consumption, fueled by more production, in an endless, vicious circle.

“In the 1950s, academics forecast that as a result of new technology, by the year 2000 we could have a twenty-hour workweek.”

A Sense of the Mysterious : Science and the Human Spirit (2005), p. 200<!-- Pantheon Books isbn=0375423206 -->
Контексте: In the 1950s, academics forecast that as a result of new technology, by the year 2000 we could have a twenty-hour workweek. Such a development would be a beautiful example of technology at the service of the human being.... According to the Bureau of Statistics, the goods and services produced per hour of work in the United States has indeed more than doubled since 1950.... However, instead of reducing the workweek, the increased efficiencies and productivities have gone into increasing the salaries of workers.... Workers... rather have used their increased efficiencies and resulting increased disposable income to purchase more material goods.... Indeed, in a cruel irony, the workweek has actually lengthened.... More work is required to pay for more consumption, fueled by more production, in an endless, vicious circle.

“We often do not see what we do not expect to see”

Great Ideas in Physics : The Conservation of Energy, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the Theory of Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics (2000), p. 4<!-- isbn=0071357386 -->
Контексте: The relationship between science and the humanities is two-way. Science changes our view of the world and our place in it. In the other direction, the humanities provide the store of ideas and images and language available to us in understanding the world. The exploding star of A. D. 1054, the Crab Nebula, was sighted and documented by the Chinese, but nowhere mentioned in the West, where the Aristotelian notion of the immortality of stars still held sway. We often do not see what we do not expect to see.

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

Alan Lightman книга Einstein's Dreams

Источник: Einstein's Dreams

“Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.”

Alan Lightman книга Einstein's Dreams

Источник: Einstein's Dreams

“Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.”

Alan Lightman книга Einstein's Dreams

Источник: Einstein's Dreams

“What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?”

Alan Lightman книга Einstein's Dreams

Источник: Einstein's Dreams

“Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.”

Alan Lightman книга Einstein's Dreams

Источник: Einstein's Dreams

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