I consider myself a spiritual atheist.
ALAN LIGHTMANWe’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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I think once we stop asking questions like “what is the age of the universe,” or “how are the instructions of DNA carried out on a microscopic level,” once we stop asking questions like that, we’re dead.
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I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of … shall we say, power.
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The second squirms and wriggles like a bluefish in a bay. The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along.
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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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The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences.
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Will never fail to show his love, will never become jealous, will never fall in love with someone else, will never lose the passion of this instant of time.
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And since the human mind has a degree of infinity and imagination unlikely to be matched by a machine for a very, very long time, I don’t think that we will become the machines of the machines.
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The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
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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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A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer – in the form of a review or something.
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Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
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In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
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In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
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The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.
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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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