Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
We feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
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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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Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.” “They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen to their heartbeats. They feel the rhythms of their moods and desires.”
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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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If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
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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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I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It’s a challenge to the powers that be. It’s saying there is a real literature in this country and we will keep publishing it.
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But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of images that shift with each disturbance of a sudden breeze, a laugh, a thought? And if the shift is everywhere, how would we know?
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That’s an exciting thing. In a class of fifteen there are usually two very good writers, equal to good student writers anywhere in the country. Those two make the class wonderful.
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It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?
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Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and complete mindlessness is hard for us to accept.
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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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