"The urge to discover, to invent, to know……" — Alan Lightman
"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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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 Cannot Imagine Quotes
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Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
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I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so…
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You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work…
— H.G. Wells
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The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Desire means you are dragged out of the moment; that creates a tension, that creates anxiety, that creates hope. And…
— Rajneesh
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Our underclothes were woolen vests and knickers and an extraordinary, but apparently necessary, concoction called a liberty bodice, which had…
— Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
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NATO remains a military alliance, and we are against having a military alliance making itself at home right in our…
— Vladimir Putin
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I have a deep love and respect for children and I cannot imagine photographic life without them playing a major…
— Anne Geddes
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I truly cannot imagine men with men, women with women, doing what they were not physically created to do, without…
— Jerry Falwell
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Like everyone else in the world, I've been devastated by the loss and suffering of so many in South Asia....As…
— Celine Dion
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People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an…
— Grace Lee Boggs
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