Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
ALAN LIGHTMANIn restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Novels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline.
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Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
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If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
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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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I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.
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We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.
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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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The Book of Telling tells of a woman’s journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process.
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A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it’s a good starting place for me.
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It’s exciting having a student who is not used to expressing their emotional side and bringing that out in them and see that developing and helping to nurture that.
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You’ve made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
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As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not.
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