One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones.
ALAN LIGHTMANSuppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.
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While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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The first is as rigid and metallic as a massive pendulum of iron that swings back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
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There are important differences which should be preserved, and in trying to do away with those differences we would lose something the same way as if we tried to make all religions one religion or all races one race.
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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. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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The second squirms and wriggles like a bluefish in a bay. The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along.
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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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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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it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn’t there. Or ignore what is.
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I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie.
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Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
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Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
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What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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Some say it is best not to go near the center of time.
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