Alan Lightman Quotes
And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman As I understand it, a universe is a … well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class – contemporary literature is what’s most useful.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can’t just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it’s really in how the technology is used.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman It’s exciting having a student who is not used to expressing their emotional side and bringing that out in them and see that developing and helping to nurture that.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Continents of memory had been lost.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman I should have written books instead of reading them.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman After a while the car becomes just another thing that he owns. Moreover, when his neighbor next door buys two cars, in an instant our man feels wretchedly poor and deprived.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of … shall we say, power.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman What I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet reflection on who we are, and where we’re going.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of images that shift with each disturbance of a sudden breeze, a laugh, a thought? And if the shift is everywhere, how would we know?
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