There are important differences which should be preserved, and in trying to do away with those differences we would lose something the same way as if we tried to make all religions one religion or all races one race.
ALAN LIGHTMANI have a family and you know very well the time that that takes. That’s good time. I have a couple hobbies. I’m a runner and play tennis. In the summer my family and I uproot ourselves and go live in Maine for the summer.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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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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I should have written books instead of reading them.
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I think all tragedies are best told with some humor. You have to relieve the darkness to let the reader get through it. Also, that life has happiness and sadness mixed together.
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I re-read a lot of books that I like a lot. There are some books that I try to reread every couple of years. A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life.
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So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.
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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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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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The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
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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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The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
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I consider myself a spiritual atheist.
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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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It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.
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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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