Unfortunately, public debates do not have much room for subtlety. The audience wants a quick thrust at your opponent, not a slow and convoluted series of moves.
ALAN LIGHTMANIn a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration.
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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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I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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Rather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. … It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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All writers have roots they draw from – travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
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I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of … shall we say, power.
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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,
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Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?
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You can’t let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.
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Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and longitudinal, so an object may participate in three perpendicular futures.
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The exploding star of A.D. 1054, the Crab Nebula, was sighted and documented by the Chinese, but nowhere mentioned in the West, where the Aristotelian notion of the immortality of stars still held sway.
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I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.
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