Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
ALAN LIGHTMANWhile people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.
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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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It is true that the arts at MIT don’t have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.
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Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
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For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness.
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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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Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order.
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Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return.
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If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
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They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.
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I was in New York and had lunch with Oliver Sachs and compared notes with him – he is someone I really like.
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I have a family and you know very well the time that that takes. That’s good time. I have a couple hobbies. I’m a runner and play tennis. In the summer my family and I uproot ourselves and go live in Maine for the summer.
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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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In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
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Everyone shares the same fate.
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