Quotes by : Alan Lightman

Something else gets under your skin, keeps you working days and nights at the sacrifice of your sleeping....

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge,....

The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the....

Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could....

Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope,....

And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen....

Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened.....

I've taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it's a wonderful communication technology,....