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, that I was hearing the words.
ALAN LIGHTMANRather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. … It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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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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Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.
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As I understand it, a universe is a … well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.
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A book, especially a longer book, it’s a different kind of force that pushes you through it. It’s a vision of the whole thing.
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I consider myself a spiritual atheist.
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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.
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To the point that I have to be careful that they don’t take over.
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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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Like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.
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He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back?
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Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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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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Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition.
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We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.
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It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or no future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy.
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