To the point that I have to be careful that they don’t take over.
ALAN LIGHTMANIf a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
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There is a place where time stands still.
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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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The first is as rigid and metallic as a massive pendulum of iron that swings back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
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I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.
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The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.
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In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.
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Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
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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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In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
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Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.
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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all.
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