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.
ALAN LIGHTMANI also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.
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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That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination,
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There are important differences which should be preserved, and in trying to do away with those differences we would lose something the same way as if we tried to make all religions one religion or all races one race.
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A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile…But this happy sensation wears off.
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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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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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When I used to play golf. It’s a terrible miserable game. It’s incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots off in the woods, in the water…
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When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed outside their own mental and physiological processes.
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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return?
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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 have a family and you know very well the time that that takes. That’s good time. I have a couple hobbies. I’m a runner and play tennis. In the summer my family and I uproot ourselves and go live in Maine for the summer.
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And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let go.
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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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Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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