I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.
ALAN LIGHTMANSuch is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].
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In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.
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In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,
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In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
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A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That’s a sign of a good novel.
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It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy.
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As human beings, don’t we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?
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A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile…But this happy sensation wears off.
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Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order.
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The Book of Telling tells of a woman’s journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.” “They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen to their heartbeats. They feel the rhythms of their moods and desires.”
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With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.
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At every point of decision, the world splits into three worlds, each with the same people, but different fates for those people. In time, there are an infinity of worlds.
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Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions?
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If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.
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