It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning.
ALAN LIGHTMANI appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society – which is true in all his books.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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There are important differences which should be preserved, and in trying to do away with those differences we would lose something the same way as if we tried to make all religions one religion or all races one race.
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Body time flows at its own variable rate, oblivious to the most precise hydrogen master clocks in the laboratory. In fact, the human body contains its own exquisite time-pieces, all with their separate rhythms.
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Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions?
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I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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As I understand it, a universe is a … well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.
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We try to connect. We try to find truth. We dream and we hope. And underneath all of these strivings, we are haunted by the suspicion that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the whole.
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With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.
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A world with one month is a world of equality.
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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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I spend a lot of time just listening to the ospreys. I watch them go through their life cycle. They spend the winter in South America.
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The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
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A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer – in the form of a review or something.
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You can’t let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.
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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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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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It’s a flow of chemicals and electrical currents, and it developed over millions of years in the process of evolution to aid in the procreation of the species.
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Every essay – the subject matter of every essay – is ultimately about the essayist; him or herself. That ultimately, every essayist is writing about his or her view of the world.
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Will never fail to show his love, will never become jealous, will never fall in love with someone else, will never lose the passion of this instant of time.
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I would bet most people don’t have thirty minutes in a day where they can just sit down and think. Or maybe they don’t have to be sitting, they can be walking.
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An unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.
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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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In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
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We’re plugged in 24 hours a day now. We’re all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not.
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If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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