Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
ALAN LIGHTMANThe Book of Telling tells of a woman’s journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
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We’re plugged in 24 hours a day now. We’re all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not.
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I’ve taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it’s a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.
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Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.
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I think people all over the institution recognize that different ways of understanding are valuable. Artists may think in a different way than biologists or chemists, but you can learn something from that.
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Continents of memory had been lost.
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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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A book, especially a longer book, it’s a different kind of force that pushes you through it. It’s a vision of the whole thing.
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All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return?
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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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I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.
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As human beings, don’t we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?
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I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
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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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I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics.
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