And if we can’t unplug from that machine, eventually we’re going to become mindless.
ALAN LIGHTMANThe great ideas in science, like the Cro-Magnon paintings and the plays of Shakespeare, are part of our cultural heritage.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones.
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it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn’t there. Or ignore what is.
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Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.
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All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.
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I should have written books instead of reading them.
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The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.
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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.
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Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
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Everyone shares the same fate.
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As I understand it, a universe is a … well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.
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They came back to the nest in the middle of April. They take separate vacations in the winter – the mother and father.
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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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Rather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. … It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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One day I’m going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask what else I do, I feel like this is part of what I do….is to watch these birds.
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Sons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own…Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free.
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