What did Alan Lightman mean by: Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly. Alan Lightman Physicist Copy
The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going? Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Alan Lightman, Change, Direction, Uncertainty, 0 Alan Lightman Physicist
+ The target of power is more interesting than its quantity. Author, August 15, 2023January 2, 2025, Alan Lightman, Interest, Quantity, Target, 0 Alan Lightman Physicist
You’ve made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Alan Lightman, Aesthetics, Creation, Emotion, 0 Alan Lightman Physicist
Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Alan Lightman, Isolation, Objectivity, Reflection, 0 Alan Lightman Physicist
Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Alan Lightman, Readers, Writers, 0 Alan Lightman Physicist
The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Alan Lightman, Happiness, Pain., Tragedy, 0 Alan Lightman Physicist
It’s the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Alan Lightman, Government, Leadership, Philosophy, 0 Alan Lightman Physicist
+ I should have written books instead of reading them. Author, October 10, 2023January 2, 2025, Alan Lightman, Creativity, Productivity, Regret, 0 Alan Lightman Physicist
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Painter · France
Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
