Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
ALAN LIGHTMANI think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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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, each touch has no past or no future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy.
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People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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Writers are a loosely knit community – community is an overstated word. Writers don’t see each other very much.
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In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads.
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Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and wait to live life? Or those who deny the future and live two lives?
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Some say it is best not to go near the center of time.
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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics.
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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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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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Most people have learned to live in the moment.
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I consider myself a spiritual atheist.
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