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.
ALAN LIGHTMANIt’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.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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The relationship between science and the humanities is two-way. Science changes our view of the world and our place in it. In the other direction, the humanities provide the store of ideas and images and language available to us in understanding the world.
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No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.
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Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition.
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In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.
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Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.
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One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time.
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Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return.
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I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I’d like to use my time more carefully.
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Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
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I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.
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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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In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared.
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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
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Most people have learned to live in the moment.
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