More from Alan Lightman
You’ve made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman 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.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions?
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman 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?
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman We don’t have the time, literally, to think during the day. To listen to ourselves think. To think about where we are going, who we are, what’s important.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman We walk from room to room, look into the room that is lit, the present moment, then walk on. We do not know the rooms ahead, but we know we cannot change them. We are spectators of our lives.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Everyone shares the same fate.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman You say, “Something important really happened here. I really had hold of something I was visited by the muse.” And that’s enough to make you continue the months and years to finish the whole book.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman
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Alison ButcherAlison Butcher Abundance is my birthright it starts with harvesting my inner light.
Shannon Van AlstShannon Van Alst I believed in the magic we made, but you were the magician and i was merely your puppet on stage.
Sophie AliaSophie Alia Eternity is vague. Let me fill in the blanks with you.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt Action is the key that solves all your problems.
Abel StarcAbel Starc His promises looked so promising that she just ignored the blatant truths.
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You don’t know where you’re swimming to. Everything’s blurry.
Zac EfronZac Efron Focus. Otherwise you will find life becomes a blur.
AnonymousAnonymous Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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