I was in New York and had lunch with Oliver Sachs and compared notes with him – he is someone I really like.
ALAN LIGHTMANA writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer – in the form of a review or something.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
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For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness.
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A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer – in the form of a review or something.
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Most people have learned to live in the moment.
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You can’t let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
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Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
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The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
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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 have a family and you know very well the time that that takes. That’s good time. I have a couple hobbies. I’m a runner and play tennis. In the summer my family and I uproot ourselves and go live in Maine for the summer.
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If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
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Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.
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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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But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
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