To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
ALAN LIGHTMANThey would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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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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The mother and father osprey stay together. It’s a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children.
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Oh, love is very much a physical thing…. I realize that it’s very complicated, and I’m sure it can’t be traced to individual neurons and hormones, but I think it’s very much a physiological sensation that takes place in the brain.
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Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea.
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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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In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
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Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
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The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination,
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Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and wait to live life? Or those who deny the future and live two lives?
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Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
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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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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
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Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real.
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In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.
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