The first is as rigid and metallic as a massive pendulum of iron that swings back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
ALAN LIGHTMANI am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.
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Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting. Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational.
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In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.” “They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen to their heartbeats. They feel the rhythms of their moods and desires.”
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A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door’s shadow. A life is a brief movement of arms and of legs.
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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
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I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration.
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The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
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It is true that the arts at MIT don’t have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.
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I value my correspondence with writers…
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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable.
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The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
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I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics.
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Will never fail to show his love, will never become jealous, will never fall in love with someone else, will never lose the passion of this instant of time.
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What I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet reflection on who we are, and where we’re going.
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I have a number of vague ideas where I just have the core or kernel of the idea. I feel like I need some time for my mind to fill up again. I feel empty. Right now.
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I consider myself a spiritual atheist.
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Most people have learned to live in the moment.
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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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I’ve taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it’s a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.
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I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country… people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force.
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At every point of decision, the world splits into three worlds, each with the same people, but different fates for those people. In time, there are an infinity of worlds.
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The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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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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