I’m humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I admire. I think he has been a big influence on me.
ALAN LIGHTMANI have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can’t just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it’s really in how the technology is used.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
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The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
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If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
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For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world, a feeling of shared connection with other living things, a desire to help people less fortunate than ourselves.
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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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I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we’re required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection.
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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
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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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Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
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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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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.
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“The Diagnosis” is by far my most ambitious book. I such great hopes for it… there was so much I wanted to do with the book. I was extremely insecure about it for several years.
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it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn’t there. Or ignore what is.
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Time is visible in all places. Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of time marching after the other in perfect succession.
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I would bet most people don’t have thirty minutes in a day where they can just sit down and think. Or maybe they don’t have to be sitting, they can be walking.
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