Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
In a world without future, each laugh is the last laugh. In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.
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Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
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There are the alpha waves in the brain; another clock is the heart. And all the while tick the mysterious, ruthless clocks that regulate aging.
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Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
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In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared.
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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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Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings.
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Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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That’s the fine balance of a fiction writer…to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.
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I should have written books instead of reading them.
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We don’t have the time, literally, to think during the day. To listen to ourselves think. To think about where we are going, who we are, what’s important.
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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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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing.
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I was in New York and had lunch with Oliver Sachs and compared notes with him – he is someone I really like.
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