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Cannot Quotes by Alan Lightman
- In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers…
- The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
- The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
- The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world…
- A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is…
- A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.
- In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared.…
- A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is…
- One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an…
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