A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it’s a good starting place for me.
ALAN LIGHTMANFor 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.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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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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It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning.
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You’ve made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
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Will never fail to show his love, will never become jealous, will never fall in love with someone else, will never lose the passion of this instant of time.
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Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return.
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In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.
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I think people all over the institution recognize that different ways of understanding are valuable. Artists may think in a different way than biologists or chemists, but you can learn something from that.
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A book, especially a longer book, it’s a different kind of force that pushes you through it. It’s a vision of the whole thing.
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I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country… people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force.
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Each person knows that somewhere is recorded the moment she was born, the moment she took her first step, the moment of her first passion, the moment she said goodbye to her parents.
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In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,
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What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
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For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing.
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