Dance for Two
Essays
For the last twenty years, Alan Lightman has been writing essays that display his genius for bringing literary and scientific concerns into harmony. Dance for Two gathers the best of Lightman's work.
Here are pieces that touch on both the ethereal and the corporeal; the dependence of a ballerina on the laws of physics, the choice of every scientist makes between tinkering and theorizing, the unscientific nature of discovery, the impulse behind an unprompted smile. Dance for Two is an intimate and fascinating look into the creative compulsions shared by the artist and the scientist.
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March 26, 1996ALAN LIGHTMAN earned his PhD in physics from the California Institute of Technology and is the author of seven novels, including the international best seller Einstein’s Dreams and The Diagnosis, a finalist for the National Book Award. His nonfiction includes The Accidental Universe, Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine, and Probable Impossibilities. He has taught at Harvard and at MIT, where he was the first person to receive a dual faculty appointment in science and the humanities. He is currently a professor of the practice of the humanities at MIT. He is the host of the public television series Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science.
The Shape of Wonder
Alan Lightman and Martin Rees
The Miraculous from the Material
Alan Lightman
The Transcendent Brain
Alan Lightman
Probable Impossibilities
Alan Lightman
Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
Alan Lightman
Screening Room
Alan Lightman
The Accidental Universe
Alan Lightman
Einstein's Dreams
Alan Lightman
Mr g
Alan Lightman
GOOD BENITO
Alan Lightman
Ghost
Alan Lightman
The Discoveries
Alan Lightman
A Sense of the Mysterious
Alan Lightman