With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice.
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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Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and wait to live life? Or those who deny the future and live two lives?
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I have a family and you know very well the time that that takes. That’s good time. I have a couple hobbies. I’m a runner and play tennis. In the summer my family and I uproot ourselves and go live in Maine for the summer.
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To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
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Novels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline.
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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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One day I’m going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask what else I do, I feel like this is part of what I do….is to watch these birds.
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For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class – contemporary literature is what’s most useful.
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Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.
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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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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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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.
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Writers are a loosely knit community – community is an overstated word. Writers don’t see each other very much.
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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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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
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