Everyone shares the same fate.
ALAN LIGHTMANA 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.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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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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Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.
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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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A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That’s a sign of a good novel.
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As a scientist, I don’t believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.
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I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I’d like to use my time more carefully.
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The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
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They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.
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Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
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It’s a flow of chemicals and electrical currents, and it developed over millions of years in the process of evolution to aid in the procreation of the species.
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I re-read a lot of books that I like a lot. There are some books that I try to reread every couple of years. A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life.
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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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The mother and father osprey stay together. It’s a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children.
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You make one good shot and it brings you back the next time. With writing a long book there has to be at least one bit that has some magic in it that you can go back to.
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