Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn’t care one whit about us.
ALAN LIGHTMANScientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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All of these things can occur with or without God. I do not believe in the existence of God, but I consider myself a spiritual person in the manner I have just described. I call myself a spiritual atheist. I would imagine that many people are spiritual atheists.
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Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
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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 think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
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I have a family and you know very well the time that that takes. That’s good time. I have a couple hobbies. I’m a runner and play tennis. In the summer my family and I uproot ourselves and go live in Maine for the summer.
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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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For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.
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As a scientist, I don’t believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.
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“Then there are those who think their bodies don’t exist. They live by mechanical time. They rise at seven o’clock in the morning. They eat their lunch at noon and their supper at six. They arrive at their appointments on time, precisely by the clock.
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We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality.
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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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Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea.
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The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
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The loved one will never take his arms from where they are now, will never give back the bracelet of memories, will never journey afar from his lover, will never place himself in danger of self-sacrifice.
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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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