But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
ALAN LIGHTMANIt is true that the arts at MIT don’t have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.
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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The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.
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I was in New York and had lunch with Oliver Sachs and compared notes with him – he is someone I really like.
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And of course, that makes it frightening to start a new book because you can’t really depend upon what you’ve done with previous books.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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So it’s really about two and a half months that I’ll feel like I can recover some silence in my life…which is so hard to find.
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Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order.
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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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If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.
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That someone else was speaking the words to me and I was just writing them down. It was a very strange experience. That can happen with a short book. I don’t think it could happen with a long book.
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it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn’t there. Or ignore what is.
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Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing.
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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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Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
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Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself.
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