And if we can’t unplug from that machine, eventually we’re going to become mindless.
ALAN LIGHTMANThoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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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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When I used to play golf. It’s a terrible miserable game. It’s incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots off in the woods, in the water…
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For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world, a feeling of shared connection with other living things, a desire to help people less fortunate than ourselves.
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It is true that the arts at MIT don’t have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.
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For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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To the point that I have to be careful that they don’t take over.
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I have a number of vague ideas where I just have the core or kernel of the idea. I feel like I need some time for my mind to fill up again. I feel empty. Right now.
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I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie.
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In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
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What I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet reflection on who we are, and where we’re going.
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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.
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I consider myself a spiritual atheist.
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I think all tragedies are best told with some humor. You have to relieve the darkness to let the reader get through it. Also, that life has happiness and sadness mixed together.
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It’s the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.
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People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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