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.
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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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 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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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics.
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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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I’ve taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it’s a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.
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For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.
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For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
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You’ve made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
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In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
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When they are on their cell phones they are not where their bodies are…they are somewhere else in hyperspace. They are not grounded.
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I 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.
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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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Everyone shares the same fate.
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