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Quote by Alan Lightman

“Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.”

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Alan Lightman is an American physicist and an accomplished writer. Born on November 28, 1948, he is renowned for his contributions to physics and his literary achievements that blend science and fiction. more

“I'm still happy with the way Einstein's Dreams came out. That book came out of a single inspiration. I really felt like I was not creating the words, that I was hearing the words. That someone else was speaking the words to me and I was just writing them down. It was a very strange experience. That can happen with a short book. I don't think it could happen with a long book.”

Thinking Way Writing Long Stills Book Dream Inspiration Happens Felt Strange Creating Hearing Long Book

Author:Alan Lightman

“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.”

Trying Years Book Different Couple Good Book Different Place

Author:Alan Lightman

“My own daughters weren't able to study in Turkey because of their headscarves, so they went to the United States.”

States Able My Own United United States Study Daughter Turkeys Headscarves

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.”

Thinking World Reason Moving Faster Reason Why Blurry

Author:Alan Lightman

“We've lost our way, we have lost our centeredness. We don't have the time, literally, to think during the day. To listen to ourselves think. To think about where we are going, who we are, what's important. I would bet most people don't have thirty minutes in a day where they can just sit down and think. Or maybe they don't have to be sitting, they can be walking.”

People Thinking Way Important Lost Minutes Walking Sitting Down And Thirty Who We Are What's Important Centeredness

Author:Alan Lightman

“Europe is not one of the major powers. And Africa even less so of course. But Africa has what Europe lacks: space, human resources, and natural resources while Europe has the technological innovation that Africa lacks. Together we can become a power which can count in the future.”

Humans Together Courses Natural Space Majors Resources Europe Innovation Technological Natural Resources Human Resources Together We Can

Author:Abdoulaye Wade

“One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones. In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads. When they are on their cell phones they are not where their bodies are...they are somewhere else in hyperspace. They are not grounded. We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.”

People May Body Walking Metaphor Phones Cells Restaurants Grounded Somewhere Else Cell Phone

Author:Alan Lightman

“I have a number of vague ideas where I just have the core or kernel of the idea. I feel like I need some time for my mind to fill up again. I feel empty. Right now.”

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Author:Alan Lightman

“I support the state, but not the state-run economy. The state should intervene only to create the conditions necessary for the private sector to thrive.”

Should States Running Support Economy Conditions Thrive Private Sector

Author:Abdoulaye Wade

“Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much.”

Community

Author:Alan Lightman

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