In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
ALAN LIGHTMANIt’s the journeyto get there. It’s a way of thinking and it’s an intellectual curiosity, a desire to know how the world works, and to know what the fundamental principles of the world are, and to know our place in it.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Continents of memory had been lost.
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I go to live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails.
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Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.
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The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That’s a sign of a good novel.
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In a world without future, each laugh is the last laugh. In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff.
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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
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Children grow rapidly, forget the centuries-long embrace from their parents, which to them lasted but seconds. Children become adults, live far from their parents, live their own houses, learn ways of their own, suffer pain, grow old.
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It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or no future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy.
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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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Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
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So it’s really about two and a half months that I’ll feel like I can recover some silence in my life…which is so hard to find.
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I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we’re required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection.
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It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
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