I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I’d like to use my time more carefully.
ALAN LIGHTMANA book, especially a longer book, it’s a different kind of force that pushes you through it. It’s a vision of the whole thing.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence.
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Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,
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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 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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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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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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As a scientist, I don’t believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.
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And of course, that makes it frightening to start a new book because you can’t really depend upon what you’ve done with previous books.
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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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Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.
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An unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.
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Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
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