Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
ALAN LIGHTMANSuch is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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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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But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
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With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.
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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.
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I wouldn’t overall say that “The Diagnosis” is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It’s a modern tragedy.
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Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn’t care one whit about us.
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In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final.
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Oh, love is very much a physical thing…. I realize that it’s very complicated, and I’m sure it can’t be traced to individual neurons and hormones, but I think it’s very much a physiological sensation that takes place in the brain.
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They came back to the nest in the middle of April. They take separate vacations in the winter – the mother and father.
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it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn’t there. Or ignore what is.
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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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It’s the journeyto get there. It’s a way of thinking and it’s an intellectual curiosity, a desire to know how the world works, and to know what the fundamental principles of the world are, and to know our place in it.
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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
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I believe that we need to slow down.
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Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea.
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