As I understand it, a universe is a … well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.
ALAN LIGHTMANWhat I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet reflection on who we are, and where we’re going.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree.
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People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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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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It is true that the arts at MIT don’t have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.
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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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The great ideas in science, like the Cro-Magnon paintings and the plays of Shakespeare, are part of our cultural heritage.
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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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For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
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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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There are the alpha waves in the brain; another clock is the heart. And all the while tick the mysterious, ruthless clocks that regulate aging.
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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society – which is true in all his books.
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As human beings, don’t we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?
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