The second squirms and wriggles like a bluefish in a bay. The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and longitudinal, so an object may participate in three perpendicular futures.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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The second squirms and wriggles like a bluefish in a bay. The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along.
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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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The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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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’m still happy with the way Einstein’s Dreams came out. That book came out of a single inspiration. I really felt like I was not creating the words, that I was hearing the words.
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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 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.
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An unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.
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I wouldn’t overall say that “The Diagnosis” is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It’s a modern tragedy.
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Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
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Illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the center of time, its vibrations slowed to echoes in vast canyons, its intensity reduced to the faint glow of fireflies.
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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.
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I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
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I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country… people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force.
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