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.
ALAN LIGHTMANYou say, “Something important really happened here. I really had hold of something I was visited by the muse.” And that’s enough to make you continue the months and years to finish the whole book.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
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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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They came back to the nest in the middle of April. They take separate vacations in the winter – the mother and father.
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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 the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence.
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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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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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Some say it is best not to go near the center of time.
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And since the human mind has a degree of infinity and imagination unlikely to be matched by a machine for a very, very long time, I don’t think that we will become the machines of the machines.
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If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
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There is a place where time stands still.
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I believe that we need to slow down.
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We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.
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If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and running a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women in Cambodia.
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In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
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