“You have to be willing to do what you do in the service of readers, not in the service of yourself.”
We sit down with physicist Alan Lightman to talk about his new book, ‘Probable Impossibilities.’
“Watch out, your brain is listening.”
“Once I describe the emotion I’m feeling, I can make sense of it. I can move past it.”
“We’re in this moment where we have to help one another.”
“Solitude is isolation that feels good, and loneliness is isolation that feels bad.”
“Even as it excludes most Americans from real opportunity, it also harms the few who seem to win.”
“You’re just spending money on unnecessary stuff that could be harming you.”
“90 percent of the success of a gathering happens before anyone even walks in the door.”
“Habits become a shortcut, and they’re activated by the cues around us.”
“Nothing is up to you but your own thoughts, opinions, and actions.”
