Song of Two Worlds

Alan Lightman

“One thousand questions, and each gives an answer, which then forms a question.”

Physicist and writer Alan Lightman’s poetic ode to science, the unknown, and our search for meaning, illustrated by an 18-year-old young man in India:

The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew

Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman on our yearning for immortality and why we long for permanence in a universe of constant change – a heartening perspective on mortality by way of the physics of the cosmos and the poetics of the night-blooming cereus cactus.

odliness in the Known and the Unknowable: Alan Lightman on Science and Spirituality

Alan Lightman

“Faith is the willingness to give ourselves over, at times, to things we do not fully understand… the full engagement with this strange and shimmering world.”

Alan Lightman, the very first person to receive dual appointments in science and the humanities at MIT, on science and spirituality – superb, necessary read: