Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
ALAN LIGHTMANNot only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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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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I would bet most people don’t have thirty minutes in a day where they can just sit down and think. Or maybe they don’t have to be sitting, they can be walking.
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All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.
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I go to live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails.
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Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree.
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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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Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.
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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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I consider myself a spiritual atheist.
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To the point that I have to be careful that they don’t take over.
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The first is as rigid and metallic as a massive pendulum of iron that swings back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
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Unfortunately, public debates do not have much room for subtlety. The audience wants a quick thrust at your opponent, not a slow and convoluted series of moves.
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Writers are a loosely knit community – community is an overstated word. Writers don’t see each other very much.
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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