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To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.

Alan Lightman

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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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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I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can’t just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it’s really in how the technology is used.
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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.
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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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I would do something and let it sit for three months… just brood about and decide I needed to slightly change something here or there. Or one character wasn’t quite right. But I think everybody goes through this.
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“Then there are those who think their bodies don’t exist. They live by mechanical time. They rise at seven o’clock in the morning. They eat their lunch at noon and their supper at six. They arrive at their appointments on time, precisely by the clock.
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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
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Writers are a loosely knit community – community is an overstated word. Writers don’t see each other very much.
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Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.
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Like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.
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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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Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition.
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Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
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