I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country… people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force.
ALAN LIGHTMANI spend a lot of time just listening to the ospreys. I watch them go through their life cycle. They spend the winter in South America.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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When I used to play golf. It’s a terrible miserable game. It’s incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots off in the woods, in the water…
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So it’s really about two and a half months that I’ll feel like I can recover some silence in my life…which is so hard to find.
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The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
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While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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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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I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.
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When they are on their cell phones they are not where their bodies are…they are somewhere else in hyperspace. They are not grounded.
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No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.
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We walk from room to room, look into the room that is lit, the present moment, then walk on. We do not know the rooms ahead, but we know we cannot change them. We are spectators of our lives.
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We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality.
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Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree.
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A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door’s shadow. A life is a brief movement of arms and of legs.
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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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The relationship between science and the humanities is two-way. Science changes our view of the world and our place in it. In the other direction, the humanities provide the store of ideas and images and language available to us in understanding the world.
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