Mr G Alan Lightman Quotes
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Mr G Alan Lightman Quotes & Sayings
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In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
— Alan Lightman
The pilgrims chant with every minute subtracted from their lives. This is their sacrifice.
— Alan Lightman
Continents of memory had been lost.
— Alan Lightman
The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
— Alan Lightman
I wouldn't overall say that The Diagnosis it's a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern tragedy.
— Alan Lightman
Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers ... that is a small population.
— Alan Lightman
In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
— Alan Lightman
You've made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
— Alan Lightman
As a scientist, I don't believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.
— Alan Lightman
A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.
— Alan Lightman
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
— Alan Lightman
Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
— Alan Lightman
I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film. Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.
— Alan Lightman
No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.
— Alan Lightman
A world with one month is a world of equality.
— Alan Lightman
The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
— Alan 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 Lightman
If the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past. And if the present has little effect on the future,
— Alan Lightman
Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
— Alan Lightman
I should have written books instead of reading them.
— Alan Lightman
Everyone shares the same fate.
— Alan Lightman
My second novel, Good Benito, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.
— Alan Lightman
They have been trapped by their own inventiveness and audacity. And they must pay with their lives.
— Alan Lightman
Each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own.
— Alan Lightman
Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.
— Alan Lightman
Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
— Alan Lightman
Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
— Alan Lightman
Yet the time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.
— Alan Lightman
