In this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
ALAN LIGHTMANI was in New York and had lunch with Oliver Sachs and compared notes with him – he is someone I really like.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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To the point that I have to be careful that they don’t take over.
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Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
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My second novel, “Good Benito”, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.” “They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen to their heartbeats. They feel the rhythms of their moods and desires.”
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Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
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I’m humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I admire. I think he has been a big influence on me.
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Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real.
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The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences.
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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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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you’re not simply putting down things that are already known to you. You’re actually discovering in the writing process, you’re actually creating knowledge.
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But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
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Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
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Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
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I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of … shall we say, power.
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