For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class – contemporary literature is what’s most useful.
ALAN LIGHTMANI oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world, a feeling of shared connection with other living things, a desire to help people less fortunate than ourselves.
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I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
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Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.
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While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
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And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
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Continents of memory had been lost.
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Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition.
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Some say it is best not to go near the center of time.
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In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.
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Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.
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I think people all over the institution recognize that different ways of understanding are valuable. Artists may think in a different way than biologists or chemists, but you can learn something from that.
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