And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence.
ALAN LIGHTMANIn this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing.
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Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.
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As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not.
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I go to live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails.
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Originality is also very important to a writer. And all of the writers I’ve mentioned, of course, are original, but it’s important to me that every book that I do be really a completely fresh and new look at the world.
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I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
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I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
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As a scientist, I don’t believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.
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Body time flows at its own variable rate, oblivious to the most precise hydrogen master clocks in the laboratory. In fact, the human body contains its own exquisite time-pieces, all with their separate rhythms.
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I value my correspondence with writers…
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Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.
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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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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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Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order.
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