In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,
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“The Diagnosis” had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the last year or so it was making small changes.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.
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The loved one will never take his arms from where they are now, will never give back the bracelet of memories, will never journey afar from his lover, will never place himself in danger of self-sacrifice.
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A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That’s a sign of a good novel.
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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.
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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
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That someone else was speaking the words to me and I was just writing them down. It was a very strange experience. That can happen with a short book. I don’t think it could happen with a long book.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.” “They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen to their heartbeats. They feel the rhythms of their moods and desires.”
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I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.
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The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.
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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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It’s not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don’t count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.
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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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And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence.
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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
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