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.
ALAN LIGHTMANUnconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
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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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In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
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There are the alpha waves in the brain; another clock is the heart. And all the while tick the mysterious, ruthless clocks that regulate aging.
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Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea.
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In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads.
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I consider myself a spiritual atheist.
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In a world without future, each laugh is the last laugh. In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff.
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I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics.
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A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer – in the form of a review or something.
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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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The second squirms and wriggles like a bluefish in a bay. The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along.
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The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
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Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting. Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational.
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