To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
ALAN LIGHTMANWe try to connect. We try to find truth. We dream and we hope. And underneath all of these strivings, we are haunted by the suspicion that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the whole.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile…But this happy sensation wears off.
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Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
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I have a number of vague ideas where I just have the core or kernel of the idea. I feel like I need some time for my mind to fill up again. I feel empty. Right now.
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I believe that we need to slow down.
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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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I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration.
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Body time flows at its own variable rate, oblivious to the most precise hydrogen master clocks in the laboratory. In fact, the human body contains its own exquisite time-pieces, all with their separate rhythms.
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Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return.
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The mother and father osprey stay together. It’s a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children.
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Novels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline.
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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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The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
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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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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
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I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
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