A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
ALAN LIGHTMANIt is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We’ve become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.
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While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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I believe that we need to slow down.
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A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it’s a good starting place for me.
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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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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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Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions?
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You can’t let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.
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Every essay – the subject matter of every essay – is ultimately about the essayist; him or herself. That ultimately, every essayist is writing about his or her view of the world.
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Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
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As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not.
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In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final.
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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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