Illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the center of time, its vibrations slowed to echoes in vast canyons, its intensity reduced to the faint glow of fireflies.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

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Illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the center of time, its vibrations slowed to echoes in vast canyons, its intensity reduced to the faint glow of fireflies.

Alan Lightman

I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Contradict Method Oppose
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.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

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.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Preserve Something
The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Happy No One Stuck
Novels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

Novels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Instruction Other Pedagogical Physics
Most people have learned to live in the moment.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Moment Most
Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Point Reader Singer Something
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.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

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.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Back Bring Least Next One Some
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.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Fluent Traditional Two
Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing by rain?

ALAN LIGHTMAN

Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing by rain?
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Anything Pure
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 LIGHTMAN

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 LIGHTMAN

Back First Forth Metallic Pendulum Rigid Swing
We often do not see what we do not expect to see.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Expect Not Often See
The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Consequence
A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it’s a good starting place for me.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it’s a good starting place for me.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
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.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

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.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Been Leader Think
I should have written books instead of reading them.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

I should have written books instead of reading them.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Read Should Write
While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Ahead Back Broot Skip

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