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Alan Lightman has 65 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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,…
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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 rigid and…
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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 through the…
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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 to almost…
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In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final. In…
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In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not…
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and…
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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 that or…
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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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Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement. Just as the electron is the last unit of matter discernible…
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I do not believe in eternal progress, that we are growing on ever and ever in a straight line. It is too…
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It is very important to understand yoga philosophy: without philosophy, practice is not good, and yoga practice is the starting place for…
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A lot of people in television who've had successful shows claim the 'Roseanne' show as their starting place, and I'm really proud…
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Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience,…
— Alan Lightman
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I don't place much faith in my intuitions, except as a starting place for designing experiments.
— Elizabeth Spelke
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I was really inspired while I was pregnant and I wrote a whole album for my baby. I wanted to write a…
— Jewel
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He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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You will now have a starting place and a destination, and you will be able to determine what it will cost you…
— H Stanley Judd
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