I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary.
ALAN LIGHTMANI still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you’re not simply putting down things that are already known to you. You’re actually discovering in the writing process, you’re actually creating knowledge.
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Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.
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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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And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let go.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.
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That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination,
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As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious belief that would, in my view, be compatible with science.
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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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Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing.
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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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In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,
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Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
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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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It is true that the arts at MIT don’t have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.
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There is a cultural diversity that’s very valuable, and it’s valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.
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