The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
ALAN LIGHTMANI think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we’re required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and running a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women in Cambodia.
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The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
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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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I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society – which is true in all his books.
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Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real.
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Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and wait to live life? Or those who deny the future and live two lives?
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I should have written books instead of reading them.
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A 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.
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For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness.
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Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.
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Originality is also very important to a writer. And all of the writers I’ve mentioned, of course, are original, but it’s important to me that every book that I do be really a completely fresh and new look at the world.
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Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
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It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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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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