What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
ALAN LIGHTMANSexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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Oh, love is very much a physical thing…. I realize that it’s very complicated, and I’m sure it can’t be traced to individual neurons and hormones, but I think it’s very much a physiological sensation that takes place in the brain.
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I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we’re required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection.
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I wouldn’t overall say that “The Diagnosis” is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It’s a modern tragedy.
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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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With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.
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One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of 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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Continents of memory had been lost.
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I believe that we need to slow down.
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For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.
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A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile…But this happy sensation wears off.
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A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.
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No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.
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I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.
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