Alan Lightman Quotes
Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back?
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman You’ve made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman I certainly believe there are forces bigger than ourselves, and that we should be searching, individually, for meaning in our lives. But I don’t believe there’s a supreme being, an intelligence that created everything.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions?
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman 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?
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman We walk from room to room, look into the room that is lit, the present moment, then walk on. We do not know the rooms ahead, but we know we cannot change them. We are spectators of our lives.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman 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.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Everyone shares the same fate.
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