Everyone shares the same fate.
ALAN LIGHTMANTime is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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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.
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I would bet most people don’t have thirty minutes in a day where they can just sit down and think. Or maybe they don’t have to be sitting, they can be walking.
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An unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.
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As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not.
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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable.
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No one ever expects poetry to sell…
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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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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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You say, “Something important really happened here. I really had hold of something I was visited by the muse.” And that’s enough to make you continue the months and years to finish the whole book.
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We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality.
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I consider myself a spiritual atheist.
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Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn’t care one whit about us.
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Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country… people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force.
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