All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.
ALAN LIGHTMANI think once we stop asking questions like “what is the age of the universe,” or “how are the instructions of DNA carried out on a microscopic level,” once we stop asking questions like that, we’re dead.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Some say it is best not to go near the center of time.
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The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
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A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer – in the form of a review or something.
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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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I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can’t just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it’s really in how the technology is used.
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I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.
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There is a cultural diversity that’s very valuable, and it’s valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.
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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie.
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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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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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You can’t let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.
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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
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Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
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