We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
ALAN LIGHTMANI have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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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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I’ve taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it’s a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.
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And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all.
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It’s exciting having a student who is not used to expressing their emotional side and bringing that out in them and see that developing and helping to nurture that.
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Like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.
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He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back?
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And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence.
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Unfortunately, public debates do not have much room for subtlety. The audience wants a quick thrust at your opponent, not a slow and convoluted series of moves.
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We have a house on a very tiny island in Maine. Which is really my spiritual center. We’ve been going there for ten years, and it has no ferry service, no bridges, no telephone service. It’s really isolated.
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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.
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My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you’re not simply putting down things that are already known to you. You’re actually discovering in the writing process, you’re actually creating knowledge.
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I value my correspondence with writers…
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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.
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To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
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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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