It's the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I consider myself a spiritual atheist. I certainly believe there are forces bigger than ourselves, and that we should be searching, individually,… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary.… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right and wrong demand freedom of choice, but if each action… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“I've decided that has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
"The Diagnosis" is by far my most ambitious book. I such great hopes for it... there was so much I wanted to do with… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer - in… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world, a feeling… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
