It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning.
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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Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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It’s the journeyto get there. It’s a way of thinking and it’s an intellectual curiosity, a desire to know how the world works, and to know what the fundamental principles of the world are, and to know our place in it.
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In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
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Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].
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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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Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.
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As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not.
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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
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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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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
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A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer – in the form of a review or something.
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In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads.
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We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.
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Each person knows that somewhere is recorded the moment she was born, the moment she took her first step, the moment of her first passion, the moment she said goodbye to her parents.
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