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Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn’t care one whit about us.

Alan Lightman

Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
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Illogic Justification Logic Postdiction Prediction
Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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Acid Bit Cerebellum More Sadness Transfix
I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society – which is true in all his books.
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Appreciate Book Ideas Person Society
Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant.
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Decision Event Glance Happen Lose Occur Reality
The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.
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Deal Know Speak Time Unable
They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.
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Butterfly Case Contentment Eternity Even Fix Frozen
That’s the fine balance of a fiction writer…to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.
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Artistic Balance Character Control Fiction Fine Freedom Maintain Surprise Writer
Just didn’t know whether I would finish the book much less for it to come close to what I intended. I think that for any novel you never know exactly how the book is going to turn out…
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Book Close Come Exact Intend Novel Think
In a world without future, each laugh is the last laugh. In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff.
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Beyond Cliff Future Hang Laugh Nothingness Present
Our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We’ve become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.
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Advance Imagination Revolution Sense Species World
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
For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world, a feeling of shared connection with other living things, a desire to help people less fortunate than ourselves.
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Belief Include Larger Ourselves Spirituality Thing
Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing.
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Always Been Begin Book End I Idea People Person Portrait Write
In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
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Carefully Extremely Fiction Handle Idea Write
I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.
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Belief Contradict Determine Evidence Experiment Method Oppose Science
That’s an exciting thing. In a class of fifteen there are usually two very good writers, equal to good student writers anywhere in the country. Those two make the class wonderful.
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Anywhere Class Equal Good Excite Student Thing Wonderful Writer

Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn’t care one whit about us.

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