My second novel, “Good Benito”, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.
ALAN LIGHTMANLife is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree.
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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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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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Most people have learned to live in the moment.
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I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.
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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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In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
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In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.
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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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After a while the car becomes just another thing that he owns. Moreover, when his neighbor next door buys two cars, in an instant our man feels wretchedly poor and deprived.
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Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself.
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The mother and father osprey stay together. It’s a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children.
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Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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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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I spend a lot of time just listening to the ospreys. I watch them go through their life cycle. They spend the winter in South America.
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We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality.
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It’s a flow of chemicals and electrical currents, and it developed over millions of years in the process of evolution to aid in the procreation of the species.
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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?
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Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.
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I would bet most people don’t have thirty minutes in a day where they can just sit down and think. Or maybe they don’t have to be sitting, they can be walking.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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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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It is true that the arts at MIT don’t have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.
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If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
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Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition.
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