Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
ALAN LIGHTMANThat 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.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.
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We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.
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The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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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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A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That’s a sign of a good novel.
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Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.
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Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings.
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One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones.
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I was in New York and had lunch with Oliver Sachs and compared notes with him – he is someone I really like.
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Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing by rain?
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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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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing.
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I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of … shall we say, power.
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Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
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