Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real.
ALAN LIGHTMANI re-read a lot of books that I like a lot. There are some books that I try to reread every couple of years. A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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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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Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting. Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational.
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We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality.
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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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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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In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,
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To the point that I have to be careful that they don’t take over.
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What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
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I wouldn’t overall say that “The Diagnosis” is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It’s a modern tragedy.
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Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return.
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I’m humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I admire. I think he has been a big influence on me.
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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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I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can’t just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it’s really in how the technology is used.
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Sons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own…Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free.
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