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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.

Alan Lightman

Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings.
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Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
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An unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.
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Time is visible in all places. Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of time marching after the other in perfect succession.
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Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
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Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.
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I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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And since the human mind has a degree of infinity and imagination unlikely to be matched by a machine for a very, very long time, I don’t think that we will become the machines of the machines.
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I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather than focus on any one essay.
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I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society – which is true in all his books.
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I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It’s a challenge to the powers that be. It’s saying there is a real literature in this country and we will keep publishing it.
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We have a house on a very tiny island in Maine. Which is really my spiritual center. We’ve been going there for ten years, and it has no ferry service, no bridges, no telephone service. It’s really isolated.
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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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Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
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It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.
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