Each person knows that somewhere is recorded the moment she was born, the moment she took her first step, the moment of her first passion, the moment she said goodbye to her parents.
ALAN LIGHTMANI 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.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
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Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
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An unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.
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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing.
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You make one good shot and it brings you back the next time. With writing a long book there has to be at least one bit that has some magic in it that you can go back to.
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Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?
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I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can’t just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it’s really in how the technology is used.
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I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of … shall we say, power.
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There are important differences which should be preserved, and in trying to do away with those differences we would lose something the same way as if we tried to make all religions one religion or all races one race.
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And since the human mind has a degree of infinity and imagination unlikely to be matched by a machine for a very, very long time, I don’t think that we will become the machines of the machines.
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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
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Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return.
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The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
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In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads.
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Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real.
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