Philosophical Position 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 the present,…
• Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
• In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as rigid and…
• With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the…
• Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
• Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
• There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost…
• In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final. In…
• In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not…
• In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and…
• We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or…
• All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for…

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