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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.

Alan Lightman

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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Dep Discover History Human Imagine Invent Know Seem Unknown Urge
The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
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Being Belief Disbelief Faith Matter
We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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Centeredness Lost Way
There are important differences which should be preserved, and in trying to do away with those differences we would lose something the same way as if we tried to make all religions one religion or all races one race.
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Difference Important Lose Preserve Same Something
it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn’t there. Or ignore what is.
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Hard Ignore Invent Real Sometimes Tell There
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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Background Border Especially Ground Meet Philosophy Question Science Theology
You’ve made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
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Beauty Feel Grand Grander Harmony Something
I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
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Lift Principle Reach Some Subconscious
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
In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared.
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Corridor Dark Each Fixed Infinite Life Moment Next Prepare Room World
It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning.
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Glance Meaning Moment Speak Spoken World
If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
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Darkness Real Story Told
In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.
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Body Mechanical Time World
There are the alpha waves in the brain; another clock is the heart. And all the while tick the mysterious, ruthless clocks that regulate aging.
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Alpha Another Brain Clock Heart Mysterious Ruthless Tick Wave
I value my correspondence with writers…
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Correspondance Value Writer
The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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Future Order Organisation Past Pattern Point

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 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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