It is true that the arts at MIT don’t have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.
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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But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
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A world with one month is a world of equality.
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After a while the car becomes just another thing that he owns. Moreover, when his neighbor next door buys two cars, in an instant our man feels wretchedly poor and deprived.
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With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice.
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All of these things can occur with or without God. I do not believe in the existence of God, but I consider myself a spiritual person in the manner I have just described. I call myself a spiritual atheist. I would imagine that many people are spiritual atheists.
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I go to live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society – which is true in all his books.
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I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.
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There is a place where time stands still.
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In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads.
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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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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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A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That’s a sign of a good novel.
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In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
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