I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.
ALAN LIGHTMANIn this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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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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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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If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and running a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women in Cambodia.
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All writers have roots they draw from – travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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We feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall.
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There are important differences which should be preserved, and in trying to do away with those differences we would lose something the same way as if we tried to make all religions one religion or all races one race.
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I 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.
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Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].
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Everyone shares the same fate.
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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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There are the alpha waves in the brain; another clock is the heart. And all the while tick the mysterious, ruthless clocks that regulate aging.
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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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The first is as rigid and metallic as a massive pendulum of iron that swings back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
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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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