I think once we stop asking questions like “what is the age of the universe,” or “how are the instructions of DNA carried out on a microscopic level,” once we stop asking questions like that, we’re dead.
ALAN LIGHTMANA writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer – in the form of a review or something.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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I certainly believe there are forces bigger than ourselves, and that we should be searching, individually, for meaning in our lives. But I don’t believe there’s a supreme being, an intelligence that created everything.
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I consider myself a spiritual atheist.
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The mother and father osprey stay together. It’s a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children.
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What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
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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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All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return?
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There is a cultural diversity that’s very valuable, and it’s valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.
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Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings.
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No one ever expects poetry to sell…
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Don’t you feel something magical when you’re in love?… I do, I certainly do … but I think that feeling of magic is a hardwired psychological response. It’s a chemical thing in the brain.
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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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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
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A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door’s shadow. A life is a brief movement of arms and of legs.
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Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions?
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