Alan Lightman Quotes
Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman At every point of decision, the world splits into three worlds, each with the same people, but different fates for those people. In time, there are an infinity of worlds.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman We try to connect. We try to find truth. We dream and we hope. And underneath all of these strivings, we are haunted by the suspicion that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the whole.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Every essay – the subject matter of every essay – is ultimately about the essayist; him or herself. That ultimately, every essayist is writing about his or her view of the world.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Sons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own…Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman I think people all over the institution recognize that different ways of understanding are valuable. Artists may think in a different way than biologists or chemists, but you can learn something from that.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman The exploding star of A.D. 1054, the Crab Nebula, was sighted and documented by the Chinese, but nowhere mentioned in the West, where the Aristotelian notion of the immortality of stars still held sway.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Will never fail to show his love, will never become jealous, will never fall in love with someone else, will never lose the passion of this instant of time.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman 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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