I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society – which is true in all his books.
ALAN LIGHTMANIf you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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There is a cultural diversity that’s very valuable, and it’s valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.
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Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.
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You’ve made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
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To the point that I have to be careful that they don’t take over.
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The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and longitudinal, so an object may participate in three perpendicular futures.
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What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.
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I believe that we need to slow down.
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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy.
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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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They came back to the nest in the middle of April. They take separate vacations in the winter – the mother and father.
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Originality is also very important to a writer. And all of the writers I’ve mentioned, of course, are original, but it’s important to me that every book that I do be really a completely fresh and new look at the world.
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In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final.
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When I used to play golf. It’s a terrible miserable game. It’s incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots off in the woods, in the water…
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Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.
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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.
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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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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
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I consider myself a spiritual atheist.
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I’ve taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it’s a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.
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The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
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I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of 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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