Searching for stars on an island in Maine
Lightman, Alan P., 1948-2018
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As a physicist, Alan Lightman has always held a purely scientific view of the world. Even as a teenager, experimenting in his own laboratory, he was impressed by the logic and materiality of the universe, which is governed by a small number of disembodied forces and laws. Those laws decree that all things in the world are material and impermanent. But one summer evening, while looking at the stars from a small boat at sea, Lightman was overcome by the overwhelming sensation that he was merging with something larger than himself - a grand and eternal unity, a hint of something absolute and immaterial.
Main title:
Searching for stars on an island in Maine / Alan Lightman.
Author:
Lightman, Alan P., 1948-, author
Imprint:
London : Corsair, 2018.
Collation:
viii, 226 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Pantheon Books.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781472152824 (hbk)
Dewey class:
261.55
LC class:
BL240.3
Local class:
261.55
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2200420