As a scientist, I don't believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.
Alan LightmanWriters read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.
Alan LightmanIn a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
Alan LightmanTime is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.
Alan LightmanWith infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice. Sons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own…Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free.
Alan Lightman