And if we can’t unplug from that machine, eventually we’re going to become mindless.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
For 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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Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.
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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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For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class – contemporary literature is what’s most useful.
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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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I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
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Our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We’ve become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.
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In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
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“The Diagnosis” is by far my most ambitious book. I such great hopes for it… there was so much I wanted to do with the book. I was extremely insecure about it for several years.
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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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It’s not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don’t count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.
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Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and wait to live life? Or those who deny the future and live two lives?
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What I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet reflection on who we are, and where we’re going.
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