I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.
ALAN LIGHTMANIlluminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the center of time, its vibrations slowed to echoes in vast canyons, its intensity reduced to the faint glow of fireflies.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious belief that would, in my view, be compatible with science.
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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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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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In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads.
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I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
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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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A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That’s a sign of a good novel.
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Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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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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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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You say, “Something important really happened here. I really had hold of something I was visited by the muse.” And that’s enough to make you continue the months and years to finish the whole book.
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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.
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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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In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,
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