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.
ALAN LIGHTMANImagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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I think once we stop asking questions like “what is the age of the universe,” or “how are the instructions of DNA carried out on a microscopic level,” once we stop asking questions like that, we’re dead.
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The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
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All of these things can occur with or without God. I do not believe in the existence of God, but I consider myself a spiritual person in the manner I have just described. I call myself a spiritual atheist. I would imagine that many people are spiritual atheists.
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In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,
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Most people have learned to live in the moment.
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In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.
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Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree.
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It’s exciting having a student who is not used to expressing their emotional side and bringing that out in them and see that developing and helping to nurture that.
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A book, especially a longer book, it’s a different kind of force that pushes you through it. It’s a vision of the whole thing.
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While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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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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It’s the journeyto get there. It’s a way of thinking and it’s an intellectual curiosity, a desire to know how the world works, and to know what the fundamental principles of the world are, and to know our place in it.
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We don’t have the time, literally, to think during the day. To listen to ourselves think. To think about where we are going, who we are, what’s important.
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Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself.
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Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea.
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