Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order.
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Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
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I value my correspondence with writers…
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And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all.
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I’m still happy with the way Einstein’s Dreams came out. That book came out of a single inspiration. I really felt like I was not creating the words, that I was hearing the words.
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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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Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting. Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational.
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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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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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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.
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Like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.
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The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
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Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea.
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Children curse their parents for their wrinkled skin and hoarse voices. Those now old children also want to stop time, but at another time. They want to freeze their own children at the center of time.
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Rather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. … It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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I was in New York and had lunch with Oliver Sachs and compared notes with him – he is someone I really like.
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