We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
ALAN LIGHTMANMy writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you’re not simply putting down things that are already known to you. You’re actually discovering in the writing process, you’re actually creating knowledge.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn’t there. Or ignore what is.
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Don’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.
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Body time flows at its own variable rate, oblivious to the most precise hydrogen master clocks in the laboratory. In fact, the human body contains its own exquisite time-pieces, all with their separate rhythms.
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In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of Lake Geneva, people look at their watches and take refuge in time.
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I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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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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I should have written books instead of reading them.
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The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past.
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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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All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.
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In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
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Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea.
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