They came back to the nest in the middle of April. They take separate vacations in the winter – the mother and father.
ALAN LIGHTMANJust as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and longitudinal, so an object may participate in three perpendicular futures.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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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.
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Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
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I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration.
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Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.
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Everyone shares the same fate.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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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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The exploding star of A.D. 1054, the Crab Nebula, was sighted and documented by the Chinese, but nowhere mentioned in the West, where the Aristotelian notion of the immortality of stars still held sway.
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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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So it’s really about two and a half months that I’ll feel like I can recover some silence in my life…which is so hard to find.
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I wouldn’t overall say that “The Diagnosis” is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It’s a modern tragedy.
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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy.
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Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings.
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Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.
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As human beings, don’t we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?
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