Illuminated 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.
ALAN LIGHTMANOriginality 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.
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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Writers are a loosely knit community – community is an overstated word. Writers don’t see each other very much.
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Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings.
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We try to connect. We try to find truth. We dream and we hope. And underneath all of these strivings, we are haunted by the suspicion that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the whole.
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Like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.
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The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.
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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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Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.” “They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen to their heartbeats. They feel the rhythms of their moods and desires.”
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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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A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.
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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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It’s the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.
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Everyone shares the same fate.
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The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences.
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