Alan Lightman
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Alan Paige Lightman is an American physicist, writer, and social entrepreneur. He has served on the faculties of Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is currently a professor of the practice of the humanities at MIT. He is a contributing writer for The Atlantic magazine.
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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy.
Einstein's Dreams (1993), p. 49
The relationship between science and the humanities is two-way. Science changes our view of the world and our place in it.
Great Ideas in Physics : The Conservation of Energy, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the Theory of Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics
In the 1950s, academics forecast that as a result of new technology, by the year 2000 we could have a twenty-hour workweek.
A Sense of the Mysterious : Science and the Human Spirit (2005), p. 200
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