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.
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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I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.
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Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].
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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 consider myself a spiritual atheist.
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it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn’t there. Or ignore what is.
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As I understand it, a universe is a … well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.
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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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They came back to the nest in the middle of April. They take separate vacations in the winter – the mother and father.
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Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions?
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You’ve made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
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In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared.
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You make one good shot and it brings you back the next time. With writing a long book there has to be at least one bit that has some magic in it that you can go back to.
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In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
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Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
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