Top 120 Alan Lightman Quotes (2024 Update)
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Alan Lightman Quote: “With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.”

101. “With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.”

— Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman Quote: “For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class – contemporary literature is what’s most useful.”

102. “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

Alan Lightman Quote: “Well-being and need are purely relative concepts. There is no such thing as poverty in itself, suffering in itself, unhappiness in itself. All is relative.”

103. “Well-being and need are purely relative concepts. There is no such thing as poverty in itself, suffering in itself, unhappiness in itself. All is relative.”

— Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman Quote: “A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer – in the form of a review or something.”

104. “A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer – in the form of a review or something.”

— Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman Quote: “In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can’t let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.”

105. “In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can’t let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.”

— Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman Quote: “Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.”

106. “Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.”

— Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman Quote: “The Book of Telling tells of a woman’s journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process, an unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.”

107. “The Book of Telling tells of a woman’s journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process, an unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.”

— Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman Quote: “Somehow, we need to create a new “habit of mind,” as individuals and as a society. We need a mental attitude that values and protects stillness, privacy, solitude, slowness, personal reflection; that honors the inner life; that allows each of us to wander about without schedule within our own minds.”

108. “Somehow, we need to create a new “habit of mind,” as individuals and as a society. We need a mental attitude that values and protects stillness, privacy, solitude, slowness, personal reflection; that honors the inner life; that allows each of us to wander about without schedule within our own minds.”

— Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman Quote: “In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.”

109. “In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.”

— Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman Quote: “All writers have roots they draw from – travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.”

110. “All writers have roots they draw from – travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.”

— Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman Quote: “Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.”

111. “Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.”

— Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman Quote: “A cloud floats in the sky. A sparrow flutters. No one speaks.”

112. “A cloud floats in the sky. A sparrow flutters. No one speaks.”

— Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman Quote: “Have they been together a lifetime, or only a moment? Who can say?”

113. “Have they been together a lifetime, or only a moment? Who can say?”

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Alan Lightman Quote: “Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea. If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.”

114. “Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea. If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.”

— Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman Quote: “Faith, in its broadest sense, is about far more than belief in the existence of God or the disregard of scientific evidence. Faith is the willingness to give ourselves over, at times, to things we do not fully understand. Faith is the belief in things larger than ourselves. Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments and at others to ride the passion and exuberance that is the artistic impulse, the flight of the imagination, the full engagement with this strange and shimmering world.”

115. “Faith, in its broadest sense, is about far more than belief in the existence of God or the disregard of scientific evidence. Faith is the willingness to give ourselves over, at times, to things we do not fully understand. Faith is the belief in things larger than ourselves. Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments and at others to ride the passion and exuberance that is the artistic impulse, the flight of the imagination, the full engagement with this strange and shimmering world.”

— Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman Quote: “I think all tragedies are best told with some humor. You have to relieve the darkness to let the reader get through it. Also, that life has happiness and sadness mixed together. If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.”

116. “I think all tragedies are best told with some humor. You have to relieve the darkness to let the reader get through it. Also, that life has happiness and sadness mixed together. If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.”

— Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman Quote: “My granddaughter asked me how far away the Sun is. That question I couldn’t answer with apples and oranges. But if you traveled to the Sun on a high-speed train, say at two hundred miles per hour, it would take about fifty years. She nodded. To get to the nearest star beyond the Sun on the same train would take about fifteen million years.”

117. “My granddaughter asked me how far away the Sun is. That question I couldn’t answer with apples and oranges. But if you traveled to the Sun on a high-speed train, say at two hundred miles per hour, it would take about fifty years. She nodded. To get to the nearest star beyond the Sun on the same train would take about fifteen million years.”

— Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman Quote: “I wonder about this emptiness,” he said. “It would seem not to have any existence independent of our perception of it. An interesting substance. One could think it pleasant or unpleasant, strong or weak, and that would in fact be its reality.”

118. “I wonder about this emptiness,” he said. “It would seem not to have any existence independent of our perception of it. An interesting substance. One could think it pleasant or unpleasant, strong or weak, and that would in fact be its reality.”

— Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman Quote: “Invisibly, almost without notice, we are losing ourselves. We are losing our ability to know who we are and what is important to us. We are creating a global machine in which each of us is a mindless and reflexive cog, relentlessly driven by the speed, noise, and artificial urgency of the wired world.”

119. “Invisibly, almost without notice, we are losing ourselves. We are losing our ability to know who we are and what is important to us. We are creating a global machine in which each of us is a mindless and reflexive cog, relentlessly driven by the speed, noise, and artificial urgency of the wired world.”

— Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman Quote: “The pilgrims chant with every minute subtracted from their lives. This is their sacrifice.”

120. “The pilgrims chant with every minute subtracted from their lives. This is their sacrifice.”

— Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman Quote: “I am dizzy with infinity.”

121. “I am dizzy with infinity.”

— Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman Quote: “If the physical world were a novel, with the business of examining evil and good, it would not have the clear lines of Dickens but the shadowy ambiguities of Dostoevsky.”

122. “If the physical world were a novel, with the business of examining evil and good, it would not have the clear lines of Dickens but the shadowy ambiguities of Dostoevsky.”

— Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman Quote: “People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.”

123. “People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.”

— Alan Lightman

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