You’ve made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
ALAN LIGHTMANWhen 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…
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.
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In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of Lake Geneva, people look at their watches and take refuge in time.
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To the point that I have to be careful that they don’t take over.
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Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.
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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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The great ideas in science, like the Cro-Magnon paintings and the plays of Shakespeare, are part of our cultural heritage.
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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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Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.
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I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary.
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In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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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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You can’t let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.
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I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I’d like to use my time more carefully.
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It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning.
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