Everyone shares the same fate.
ALAN LIGHTMANI reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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The Book of Telling tells of a woman’s journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process.
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And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence.
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We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality.
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In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.
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In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads.
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I think people all over the institution recognize that different ways of understanding are valuable. Artists may think in a different way than biologists or chemists, but you can learn something from that.
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A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door’s shadow. A life is a brief movement of arms and of legs.
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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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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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Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
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Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?
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It’s not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don’t count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.
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The exploding star of A.D. 1054, the Crab Nebula, was sighted and documented by the Chinese, but nowhere mentioned in the West, where the Aristotelian notion of the immortality of stars still held sway.
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It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or no future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy.
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