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 LIGHTMANSo 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.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition.
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A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile…But this happy sensation wears off.
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Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real.
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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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They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it’s a good starting place for me.
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Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions?
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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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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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In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads.
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As I understand it, a universe is a … well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.
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We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.
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I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
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A book, especially a longer book, it’s a different kind of force that pushes you through it. It’s a vision of the whole thing.
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