Alan Lightman Quotes
A world with one month is a world of equality.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman All of these things can occur with or without God. I do not believe in the existence of God, but I consider myself a spiritual person in the manner I have just described. I call myself a spiritual atheist. I would imagine that many people are spiritual atheists.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman 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 LightmanAlan Lightman “The Diagnosis” is by far my most ambitious book. I such great hopes for it… there was so much I wanted to do with the book. I was extremely insecure about it for several years.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you’re not simply putting down things that are already known to you. You’re actually discovering in the writing process, you’re actually creating knowledge.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman I have a family and you know very well the time that that takes. That’s good time. I have a couple hobbies. I’m a runner and play tennis. In the summer my family and I uproot ourselves and go live in Maine for the summer.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Don’t you feel something magical when you’re in love?… I do, I certainly do … but I think that feeling of magic is a hardwired psychological response. It’s a chemical thing in the brain.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman 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.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman There is a place where time stands still.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman We feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious belief that would, in my view, be compatible with science.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman 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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