If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
ALAN LIGHTMANWhat sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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One day I’m going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask what else I do, I feel like this is part of what I do….is to watch these birds.
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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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Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.
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As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not.
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So it’s really about two and a half months that I’ll feel like I can recover some silence in my life…which is so hard to find.
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The Book of Telling tells of a woman’s journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process.
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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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Time is visible in all places. Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of time marching after the other in perfect succession.
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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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Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
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For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones.
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It is true that the arts at MIT don’t have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.
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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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