We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
ALAN LIGHTMANIs anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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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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Time is visible in all places. Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of time marching after the other in perfect succession.
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In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
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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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In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads.
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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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When I used to play golf. It’s a terrible miserable game. It’s incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots off in the woods, in the water…
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In a world without future, each laugh is the last laugh. In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff.
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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 argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past.
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A book, especially a longer book, it’s a different kind of force that pushes you through it. It’s a vision of the whole thing.
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To the point that I have to be careful that they don’t take over.
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Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real.
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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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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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