The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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Oh, love is very much a physical thing…. I realize that it’s very complicated, and I’m sure it can’t be traced to individual neurons and hormones, but I think it’s very much a physiological sensation that takes place in the brain.
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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
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A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That’s a sign of a good novel.
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There are the alpha waves in the brain; another clock is the heart. And all the while tick the mysterious, ruthless clocks that regulate aging.
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I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary.
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So it’s really about two and a half months that I’ll feel like I can recover some silence in my life…which is so hard to find.
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Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself.
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Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing.
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I’m humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I admire. I think he has been a big influence on me.
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I have a family and you know very well the time that that takes. That’s good time. I have a couple hobbies. I’m a runner and play tennis. In the summer my family and I uproot ourselves and go live in Maine for the summer.
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I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration.
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I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.
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What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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In a world without future, each laugh is the last laugh. In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff.
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