In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.” “They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen to their heartbeats. They feel the rhythms of their moods and desires.”
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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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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I certainly believe there are forces bigger than ourselves, and that we should be searching, individually, for meaning in our lives. But I don’t believe there’s a supreme being, an intelligence that created everything.
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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
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I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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The Book of Telling tells of a woman’s journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process.
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Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of Lake Geneva, people look at their watches and take refuge in time.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.
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I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics.
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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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Our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We’ve become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.
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While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class – contemporary literature is what’s most useful.
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We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality.
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