A world with one month is a world of equality.
ALAN LIGHTMANWe try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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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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Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?
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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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And since the human mind has a degree of infinity and imagination unlikely to be matched by a machine for a very, very long time, I don’t think that we will become the machines of the machines.
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Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
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The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
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Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.
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I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas.
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If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
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I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary.
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And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence.
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The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
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I was in New York and had lunch with Oliver Sachs and compared notes with him – he is someone I really like.
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Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree.
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Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant.
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