The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
ALAN LIGHTMANAnd beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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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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It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea.
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I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of … shall we say, power.
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That’s the fine balance of a fiction writer…to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.
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Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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I go to live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails.
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I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I’d like to use my time more carefully.
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Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real.
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Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.
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In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of Lake Geneva, people look at their watches and take refuge in time.
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As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious belief that would, in my view, be compatible with science.
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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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