There is a place where time stands still.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
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.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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There is a place where time stands still.
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Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
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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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While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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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 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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With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice.
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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. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
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A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile…But this happy sensation wears off.
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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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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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As human beings, don’t we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?
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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.
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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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