A world with one month is a world of equality.
ALAN LIGHTMANThe mother and father osprey stay together. It’s a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children.
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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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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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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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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Body time flows at its own variable rate, oblivious to the most precise hydrogen master clocks in the laboratory. In fact, the human body contains its own exquisite time-pieces, all with their separate rhythms.
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And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence.
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I should have written books instead of reading them.
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We have a house on a very tiny island in Maine. Which is really my spiritual center. We’ve been going there for ten years, and it has no ferry service, no bridges, no telephone service. It’s really isolated.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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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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They came back to the nest in the middle of April. They take separate vacations in the winter – the mother and father.
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In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
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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 love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It’s a challenge to the powers that be. It’s saying there is a real literature in this country and we will keep publishing it.
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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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