Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.
ALAN LIGHTMANWe don’t have the time, literally, to think during the day. To listen to ourselves think. To think about where we are going, who we are, what’s important.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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Body time flows at its own variable rate, oblivious to the most precise hydrogen master clocks in the laboratory. In fact, the human body contains its own exquisite time-pieces, all with their separate rhythms.
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The second squirms and wriggles like a bluefish in a bay. The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along.
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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing.
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Illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the center of time, its vibrations slowed to echoes in vast canyons, its intensity reduced to the faint glow of fireflies.
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In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy.
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With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.
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Some say it is best not to go near the center of time.
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For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world, a feeling of shared connection with other living things, a desire to help people less fortunate than ourselves.
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