Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.
ALAN LIGHTMANI have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.
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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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Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
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I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I’d like to use my time more carefully.
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For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world, a feeling of shared connection with other living things, a desire to help people less fortunate than ourselves.
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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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The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it’s a good starting place for me.
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Children grow rapidly, forget the centuries-long embrace from their parents, which to them lasted but seconds. Children become adults, live far from their parents, live their own houses, learn ways of their own, suffer pain, grow old.
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Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition.
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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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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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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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But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
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