"In this world, time has three dimensions, like……" — Alan Lightman
"In this world, time has three dimensions, like space. Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and longitudinal, so an object may participate in three perpendicular futures. Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real. At every point of decision, the world splits into three worlds, each with the same people, but different fates for those people. In time, there are an infinity of worlds."
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65 Quotes by Alan Lightman
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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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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.
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