Portable Wisdom

Author: Alan Lightman

Brief Info: American physicist, writer, and social entrepreneur

Years Lived: 1948-

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Quotations


We are idealists and we are realists

We are idealists and we are realists. We are dreamers and we are builders. We are experiencers and we are experimenters. We long for certainties, yet we ourselves are full of the ambiguities of the Mona Lisa and the I Ching. We ourselves are a part of the yin-yang of the world.

From the book Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine

— 2018

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