Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.
ALAN LIGHTMANWe’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Everyone shares the same fate.
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It is true that the arts at MIT don’t have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.
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I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
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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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The relationship between science and the humanities is two-way. Science changes our view of the world and our place in it. In the other direction, the humanities provide the store of ideas and images and language available to us in understanding the world.
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But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of images that shift with each disturbance of a sudden breeze, a laugh, a thought? And if the shift is everywhere, how would we know?
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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past.
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To the point that I have to be careful that they don’t take over.
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When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed outside their own mental and physiological processes.
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I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country… people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force.
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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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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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