We’re plugged in 24 hours a day now. We’re all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not.
ALAN LIGHTMANThe world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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I think all tragedies are best told with some humor. You have to relieve the darkness to let the reader get through it. Also, that life has happiness and sadness mixed together.
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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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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?
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I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary.
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I re-read a lot of books that I like a lot. There are some books that I try to reread every couple of years. A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life.
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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
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The first is as rigid and metallic as a massive pendulum of iron that swings back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
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We don’t have the time, literally, to think during the day. To listen to ourselves think. To think about where we are going, who we are, what’s important.
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I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather than focus on any one essay.
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One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones.
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What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.
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Don’t you feel something magical when you’re in love?… I do, I certainly do … but I think that feeling of magic is a hardwired psychological response. It’s a chemical thing in the brain.
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