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You've made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
Alan Lightman
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Alan Lightman
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: November 28
Astrophysicist
Novelist
Physicist
Science Fiction Writer
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Memphis
Tennessee
Alan Paige Lightman
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I re-read a lot of books that I like a lot. There are some books that I try to reread every couple of years. A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life.
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Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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One day I'm going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask what else I do, I feel like this is part of what I do....is to watch these birds.
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As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious belief that would, in my view, be compatible with science.
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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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I should have written books instead of reading them.
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Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself. And since the human mind has a degree of infinity and imagination unlikely to be matched by a machine for a very, very long time, I don't think that we will become the machines of the machines.
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For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness, like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.
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I've taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it's a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.
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I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It's a challenge to the powers that be. It's saying there is a real literature in this country and we will keep publishing it.
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Continents of memory had been lost.
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In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
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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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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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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 fiction.
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Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
Alan Lightman
Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
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