Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.
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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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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We try to connect. We try to find truth. We dream and we hope. And underneath all of these strivings, we are haunted by the suspicion that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the whole.
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There is a place where time stands still.
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Children grow rapidly, forget the centuries-long embrace from their parents, which to them lasted but seconds. Children become adults, live far from their parents, live their own houses, learn ways of their own, suffer pain, grow old.
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I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration.
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I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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I consider myself a spiritual atheist.
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I should have written books instead of reading them.
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Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing.
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Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
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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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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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I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society – which is true in all his books.
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I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.
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I value my correspondence with writers…
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