Alan Lightman Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time. Time is visible in all places. Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of time marching after the other in perfect succession. And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all.

  Alan Lightman

  Time, Church Bells, Years

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.25, Vintage

• Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.

  Alan Lightman

  Assumption, Conflict, Universe

  Alan Lightman (2014). “The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew”, p.32, Vintage

• As I understand it, a universe is a ... well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.

  Alan Lightman

  Wells, Totality, Universe

  Alan Lightman (2012). “Mr g: A Novel About the Creation”, p.33, Vintage

• As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not. The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.

  Alan Lightman

  Knowing, Law, Long

  Alan Lightman (2014). “The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew”, p.37, Vintage

• Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it's not the destination, it's the journeyto get there. It's a way of thinking and it's an intellectual curiosity, a desire to know how the world works, and to know what the fundamental principles of the world are, and to know our place in it. I think once we stop asking questions like "what is the age of the universe," or "how are the instructions of DNA carried out on a microscopic level," once we stop asking questions like that, we're dead.

  Alan Lightman

  Journey, Thinking, Asking Questions

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