I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.
ALAN LIGHTMANA world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of Lake Geneva, people look at their watches and take refuge in time.
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The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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Writers are a loosely knit community – community is an overstated word. Writers don’t see each other very much.
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An unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.
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A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.
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The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.
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You say, “Something important really happened here. I really had hold of something I was visited by the muse.” And that’s enough to make you continue the months and years to finish the whole book.
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In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,
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As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not.
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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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Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and complete mindlessness is hard for us to accept.
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Children grow rapidly, forget the centuries-long embrace from their parents, which to them lasted but seconds. Children become adults, live far from their parents, live their own houses, learn ways of their own, suffer pain, grow old.
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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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In a world without future, each laugh is the last laugh. In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff.
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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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Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.
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“The Diagnosis” had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the last year or so it was making small changes.
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Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?
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The Book of Telling tells of a woman’s journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.
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If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
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Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.
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I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
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Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant.
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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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