Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
ALAN LIGHTMANDon’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.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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I should have written books instead of reading them.
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I’ve taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it’s a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.
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A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile…But this happy sensation wears off.
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As human beings, don’t we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?
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In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
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In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
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I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I’d like to use my time more carefully.
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My second novel, “Good Benito”, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.
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No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.
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I consider myself a spiritual atheist.
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They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.
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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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For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class – contemporary literature is what’s most useful.
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We’re plugged in 24 hours a day now. We’re all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not.
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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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