In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads.
ALAN LIGHTMANIt’s the journeyto get there. It’s a way of thinking and it’s an intellectual curiosity, a desire to know how the world works, and to know what the fundamental principles of the world are, and to know our place in it.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition.
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I spend a lot of time just listening to the ospreys. I watch them go through their life cycle. They spend the winter in South America.
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I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.
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I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I’d like to use my time more carefully.
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I certainly believe there are forces bigger than ourselves, and that we should be searching, individually, for meaning in our lives. But I don’t believe there’s a supreme being, an intelligence that created everything.
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I was in New York and had lunch with Oliver Sachs and compared notes with him – he is someone I really like.
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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.
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Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
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One day I’m going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask what else I do, I feel like this is part of what I do….is to watch these birds.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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We try to connect. We try to find truth. We dream and we hope. And underneath all of these strivings, we are haunted by the suspicion that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the whole.
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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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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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