It’s exciting having a student who is not used to expressing their emotional side and bringing that out in them and see that developing and helping to nurture that.
ALAN LIGHTMANAll beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.
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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If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.
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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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A world with one month is a world of equality.
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That someone else was speaking the words to me and I was just writing them down. It was a very strange experience. That can happen with a short book. I don’t think it could happen with a long book.
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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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I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can’t just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it’s really in how the technology is used.
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I value my correspondence with writers…
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Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
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We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality.
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The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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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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it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn’t there. Or ignore what is.
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You can’t let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.
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I think once we stop asking questions like “what is the age of the universe,” or “how are the instructions of DNA carried out on a microscopic level,” once we stop asking questions like that, we’re dead.
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