Oh, love is very much a physical thing…. I realize that it’s very complicated, and I’m sure it can’t be traced to individual neurons and hormones, but I think it’s very much a physiological sensation that takes place in the brain.
ALAN LIGHTMANNot only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn’t care one whit about us.
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it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn’t there. Or ignore what is.
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The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
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Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself.
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They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.
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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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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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Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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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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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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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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I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.
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I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas.
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