You make one good shot and it brings you back the next time. With writing a long book there has to be at least one bit that has some magic in it that you can go back to.
ALAN LIGHTMANOr perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
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And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all.
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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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The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
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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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Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.
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There is a place where time stands still.
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You’ve made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
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That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination,
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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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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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The Book of Telling tells of a woman’s journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process.
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The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences.
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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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