I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
ALAN LIGHTMANSexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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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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While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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Novels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline.
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Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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It’s the journeyto get there. It’s a way of thinking and it’s an intellectual curiosity, a desire to know how the world works, and to know what the fundamental principles of the world are, and to know our place in it.
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I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
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Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.
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I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.
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The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
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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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The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.
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“The Diagnosis” is by far my most ambitious book. I such great hopes for it… there was so much I wanted to do with the book. I was extremely insecure about it for several years.
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Like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.
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There are the alpha waves in the brain; another clock is the heart. And all the while tick the mysterious, ruthless clocks that regulate aging.
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And if we can’t unplug from that machine, eventually we’re going to become mindless.
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