It is true that the arts at MIT don’t have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.
ALAN LIGHTMANIf a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
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All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.
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We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality.
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The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
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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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Some say it is best not to go near the center of time.
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I think once we stop asking questions like “what is the age of the universe,” or “how are the instructions of DNA carried out on a microscopic level,” once we stop asking questions like that, we’re dead.
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The mother and father osprey stay together. It’s a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children.
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Rather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. … It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you’re not simply putting down things that are already known to you. You’re actually discovering in the writing process, you’re actually creating knowledge.
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The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
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Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea.
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Novels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline.
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While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings.
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