I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.
ALAN LIGHTMANIn fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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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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Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real.
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it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn’t there. Or ignore what is.
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It’s the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.
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Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].
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A world with one month is a world of equality.
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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.
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Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order.
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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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As human beings, don’t we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?
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Sons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own…Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free.
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Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn’t care one whit about us.
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Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.
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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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