Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
ALAN LIGHTMANSadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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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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Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting. Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational.
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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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All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return?
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Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
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All of these things can occur with or without God. I do not believe in the existence of God, but I consider myself a spiritual person in the manner I have just described. I call myself a spiritual atheist. I would imagine that many people are spiritual atheists.
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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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For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.
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There is a cultural diversity that’s very valuable, and it’s valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.
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I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of … shall we say, power.
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There are the alpha waves in the brain; another clock is the heart. And all the while tick the mysterious, ruthless clocks that regulate aging.
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Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and complete mindlessness is hard for us to accept.
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I believe that we need to slow down.
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In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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