As I understand it, a universe is a … well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.
ALAN LIGHTMANOne cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time.
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I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society – which is true in all his books.
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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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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
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And if we can’t unplug from that machine, eventually we’re going to become mindless.
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Continents of memory had been lost.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final.
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The mother and father osprey stay together. It’s a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children.
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I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.
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If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
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Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
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Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions?
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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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The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
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I value my correspondence with writers…
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We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality.
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I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not.
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My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you’re not simply putting down things that are already known to you. You’re actually discovering in the writing process, you’re actually creating knowledge.
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Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and longitudinal, so an object may participate in three perpendicular futures.
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I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
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Just didn’t know whether I would finish the book much less for it to come close to what I intended. I think that for any novel you never know exactly how the book is going to turn out…
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Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
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Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
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