"Imagine a world in which there is no…" — Alan Lightman
"Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images."
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65 Quotes by Alan Lightman
Alan Lightman has 65 quotes on this site.
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Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on…
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as…
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With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back…
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Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished…
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In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is…
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In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in…
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn…
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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…
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All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile…
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More Images Quotes
This quote is filed under Images Quotes,
one of 1,175 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
— Saint Augustine
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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of…
— Gaston Bachelard
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
— Ansel Adams
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These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty…
— Ansel Adams
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its…
— J. G. Ballard
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I think of images as an immune system and a transit system.
— Lynda Barry
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My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their…
— Rob Bell
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
— Henri Bergson
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Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most…
— Bjork
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My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of…
— David Bohm
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so…
— Niels Bohr
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As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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