I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
ALAN LIGHTMANI go to live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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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 target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
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I should have written books instead of reading them.
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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.
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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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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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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
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Novels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline.
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That someone else was speaking the words to me and I was just writing them down. It was a very strange experience. That can happen with a short book. I don’t think it could happen with a long book.
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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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Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and complete mindlessness is hard for us to accept.
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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.
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What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.
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