Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
ALAN LIGHTMANAll writers have roots they draw from – travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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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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Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?
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Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
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The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing.
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It’s a flow of chemicals and electrical currents, and it developed over millions of years in the process of evolution to aid in the procreation of the species.
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I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society – which is true in all his books.
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Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings.
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And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence.
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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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it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn’t there. Or ignore what is.
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Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting. Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational.
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The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.
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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 consider myself a spiritual atheist.
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