Joy Quote by Alan Lightman

“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

“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

Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.

— Alan Lightman

"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

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

Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.

— Alan Lightman

Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

— Alan Lightman

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

Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.

— Alan Lightman

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

Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much.

— Alan Lightman

Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.

— Alan Lightman