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Alan Lightman

My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you’re not simply putting down things that are already known to you. You’re actually discovering in the writing process, you’re actually creating knowledge.
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Simplu Already Down Exploration Lot Put Write Writer
Most people have learned to live in the moment.
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Earn Live Moment Most People
Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.
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End Fact Have Impersonal Live Product Scientist
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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Book Change Different Every Few Good Life Own Place Year
Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting. Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational.
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Bet Irrational Rational Scientific Stop
When I used to play golf. It’s a terrible miserable game. It’s incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots off in the woods, in the water…
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Game Golf Play Terrible Use
It is true that the arts at MIT don’t have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.
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Amount Art Engineer Fund Same Science Status True
Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
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Brain Electrical More Surge
In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final.
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Death Each Friend Future Part World
Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.
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Care Evidence Kinship Nature Oneness Strongly Suggest Tornadoes
As a scientist, I don’t believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.
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Belive Discover Ever Exist God Prove Religion Scientist
Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
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Aftre Begin Down Ecept Gof Sit Universe
I should have written books instead of reading them.
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Book Instead Read Should Write
The first is as rigid and metallic as a massive pendulum of iron that swings back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
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Back First Forth Iron Massive Metallic Pendulum Rigid Swing
Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and complete mindlessness is hard for us to accept.
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Nature Purposeless Simply
Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?
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Anything Cloud Evaporate Ocean Pure Rain Replenishing

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