Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real.
ALAN LIGHTMANThe mother and father osprey stay together. It’s a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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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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I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics.
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And since the human mind has a degree of infinity and imagination unlikely to be matched by a machine for a very, very long time, I don’t think that we will become the machines of the machines.
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It is true that the arts at MIT don’t have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.
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I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.
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Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order.
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I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I’d like to use my time more carefully.
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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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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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Novels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline.
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Our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We’ve become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.
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We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.
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For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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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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I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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