Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
ALAN LIGHTMANThe belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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I 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.
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I’ve taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it’s a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.
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But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
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What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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The first is as rigid and metallic as a massive pendulum of iron that swings back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
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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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The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
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In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared.
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One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones.
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I consider myself a spiritual atheist.
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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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I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.
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Like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.
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The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.
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Most people have learned to live in the moment.
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