Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea.
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 tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy.
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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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It’s not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don’t count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.
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We feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall.
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I certainly believe there are forces bigger than ourselves, and that we should be searching, individually, for meaning in our lives. But I don’t believe there’s a supreme being, an intelligence that created everything.
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And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence.
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I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
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The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
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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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I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather than focus on any one essay.
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In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads.
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The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
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I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
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At every point of decision, the world splits into three worlds, each with the same people, but different fates for those people. In time, there are an infinity of worlds.
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Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
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