To the point that I have to be careful that they don’t take over.
ALAN LIGHTMANIt’s not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don’t count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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The relationship between science and the humanities is two-way. Science changes our view of the world and our place in it. In the other direction, the humanities provide the store of ideas and images and language available to us in understanding the world.
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Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.
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I think once we stop asking questions like “what is the age of the universe,” or “how are the instructions of DNA carried out on a microscopic level,” once we stop asking questions like that, we’re dead.
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As I understand it, a universe is a … well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.
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The great ideas in science, like the Cro-Magnon paintings and the plays of Shakespeare, are part of our cultural heritage.
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A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That’s a sign of a good novel.
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Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.
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Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
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Writers are a loosely knit community – community is an overstated word. Writers don’t see each other very much.
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In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared.
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Most people have learned to live in the moment.
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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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Illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the center of time, its vibrations slowed to echoes in vast canyons, its intensity reduced to the faint glow of fireflies.
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We feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall.
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