The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
ALAN LIGHTMANTornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
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There are the alpha waves in the brain; another clock is the heart. And all the while tick the mysterious, ruthless clocks that regulate aging.
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Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea.
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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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The great ideas in science, like the Cro-Magnon paintings and the plays of Shakespeare, are part of our cultural heritage.
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A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it’s a good starting place for me.
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A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That’s a sign of a good novel.
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I go to live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails.
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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
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People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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Illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the center of time, its vibrations slowed to echoes in vast canyons, its intensity reduced to the faint glow of fireflies.
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It’s exciting having a student who is not used to expressing their emotional side and bringing that out in them and see that developing and helping to nurture that.
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Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting. Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational.
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When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed outside their own mental and physiological processes.
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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
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