Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
ALAN LIGHTMANEveryone shares the same fate.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
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What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
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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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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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There is a place where time stands still.
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For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness.
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Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
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I believe that we need to slow down.
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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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Some say it is best not to go near the center of time.
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I’m still happy with the way Einstein’s Dreams came out. That book came out of a single inspiration. I really felt like I was not creating the words, that I was hearing the words.
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In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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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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