Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?
ALAN LIGHTMANUnfortunately, 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.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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To the point that I have to be careful that they don’t take over.
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Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea.
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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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It’s the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.
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It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.
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Novels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline.
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I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie.
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A world with one month is a world of equality.
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I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather than focus on any one essay.
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If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
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I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration.
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Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.
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The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past.
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As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not.
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