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Alan Lightman Quotes
Alan Lightman
American
Physicist
Born:
Nov 28
,
1948
Believe
Down
Me
Science
Time
Will
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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 not. And if we can't unplug from that machine, eventually we're going to become mindless.
Alan Lightman
Day
Big
Become
Mindless
Machine
Unplug
Part
Hours
Going
Whether
Now
Eventually
Conscious
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.
Alan Lightman
Time
Me
Science
Problem
Our
Air
About
Rise
Gives
Fact
Neurons
Never
Particular
Like
Know
Most
Arrangement
Passage
Existence
Intelligent
May
In Fact
Central
Interesting
Breathe
Beings
Consciousness
I consider myself a spiritual atheist. I certainly believe there are forces bigger than ourselves, and that we should be searching, individually, for meaning in our lives. But I don't believe there's a supreme being, an intelligence that created everything.
Alan Lightman
Myself
Spiritual
Atheist
Intelligence
Believe
Consider
Our
Everything
Our Lives
Ourselves
Individually
Supreme
Supreme Being
Forces
Than
Being
Bigger
Meaning
Created
Should
Certainly
Searching
Lives
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.
Alan Lightman
Myself
Knowledge
Science
Claims
Kind
Would
Religious
Religious Belief
Struggled
Both
Come
Understand
Scientist
Different
Formulation
View
Belief
Eventually
Compatible
Humanist
If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and running a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women in Cambodia.
Alan Lightman
Time
Women
Physics
Organization
Research
Spend
Would
Running
More
Writer
Mission
Empower
Am
Nonprofit
Cambodia
Doing
Were
Which
Teaching
Include
Things
I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
Alan Lightman
Time
Religion
Science
Writing
Long
Long Time
Magic
Also
Always
Been
Form
Loved
Realism
Fascinated
Intersection
I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
Alan Lightman
World
Will
Sit
Down
Musical
Something
Wrestling
Piano
Emotionally
Am
Still
Move
Just
Want
Play
All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
Alan Lightman
Work
Family
Travel
Science
Draw
All Writers
Writers
Fertile
Fiction
Roots
Ground
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