I’ve taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it’s a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.
ALAN LIGHTMANFor 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.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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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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There is a place where time stands still.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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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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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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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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All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return?
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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’m humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I admire. I think he has been a big influence on me.
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I go to live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails.
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The Book of Telling tells of a woman’s journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process.
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