It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
ALAN LIGHTMANAs 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.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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What I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet reflection on who we are, and where we’re going.
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That’s an exciting thing. In a class of fifteen there are usually two very good writers, equal to good student writers anywhere in the country. Those two make the class wonderful.
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In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared.
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The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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I would do something and let it sit for three months… just brood about and decide I needed to slightly change something here or there. Or one character wasn’t quite right. But I think everybody goes through this.
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While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it’s a good starting place for me.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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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.
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My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you’re not simply putting down things that are already known to you. You’re actually discovering in the writing process, you’re actually creating knowledge.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.
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In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
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As I understand it, a universe is a … well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.
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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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