Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
ALAN LIGHTMANIf you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It’s a challenge to the powers that be. It’s saying there is a real literature in this country and we will keep publishing it.
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I spend a lot of time just listening to the ospreys. I watch them go through their life cycle. They spend the winter in South America.
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
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I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather than focus on any one essay.
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It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or no future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy.
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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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As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not.
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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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Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition.
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There is a place where time stands still.
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So it’s really about two and a half months that I’ll feel like I can recover some silence in my life…which is so hard to find.
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Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?
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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree.
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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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