I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie.
ALAN LIGHTMANIt’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.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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It’s the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.
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Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
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I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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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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All writers have roots they draw from – travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
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One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time.
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We don’t have the time, literally, to think during the day. To listen to ourselves think. To think about where we are going, who we are, what’s important.
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I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
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I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics.
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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
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While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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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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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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