The relationship between science and the humanities is two-way. Science changes our view of the world and our place in it. In… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It's a challenge to the powers that be. It's saying there is… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I'm still happy with the way Einstein's Dreams came out. That book came out of a single inspiration. I really felt like… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move… — 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
