As a scientist, I don’t believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.
ALAN LIGHTMANAs a scientist, I don’t believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.
ALAN LIGHTMANA world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
ALAN LIGHTMANTo the point that I have to be careful that they don’t take over.
ALAN LIGHTMANIn fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
ALAN LIGHTMANIt’s not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don’t count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.
ALAN LIGHTMANNo one ever expects poetry to sell…
ALAN LIGHTMANAll other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return?
ALAN LIGHTMANI still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
ALAN LIGHTMANEveryone shares the same fate.
ALAN LIGHTMANOne metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones.
ALAN LIGHTMANContinents of memory had been lost.
ALAN LIGHTMANIn our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,
ALAN LIGHTMANThe belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
ALAN LIGHTMANI oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.
ALAN LIGHTMANIn this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
ALAN LIGHTMANAll beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.
ALAN LIGHTMAN