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.
ALAN LIGHTMANI oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.
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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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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Continents of memory had been lost.
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We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality.
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I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas.
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I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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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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It’s the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.
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I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It’s a challenge to the powers that be. It’s saying there is a real literature in this country and we will keep publishing it.
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Each person knows that somewhere is recorded the moment she was born, the moment she took her first step, the moment of her first passion, the moment she said goodbye to her parents.
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In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final.
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Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.
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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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And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all.
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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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