I go to live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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I go to live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails.
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Just didn’t know whether I would finish the book much less for it to come close to what I intended. I think that for any novel you never know exactly how the book is going to turn out…
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A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile…But this happy sensation wears off.
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Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
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The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.
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The exploding star of A.D. 1054, the Crab Nebula, was sighted and documented by the Chinese, but nowhere mentioned in the West, where the Aristotelian notion of the immortality of stars still held sway.
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That someone else was speaking the words to me and I was just writing them down. It was a very strange experience. That can happen with a short book. I don’t think it could happen with a long book.
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People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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Some say it is best not to go near the center of time.
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Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.
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All writers have roots they draw from – travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
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But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
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All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.
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The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
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Children curse their parents for their wrinkled skin and hoarse voices. Those now old children also want to stop time, but at another time. They want to freeze their own children at the center of time.
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And of course, that makes it frightening to start a new book because you can’t really depend upon what you’ve done with previous books.
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