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For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness.

Alan Lightman

The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
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Being Belief Disbelief Faith Matter
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
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
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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Different Life Point Reader Singer Something
An unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.
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Counterpoint Haunt Personal Powerful Unusual Written
As human beings, don’t we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?
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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
Originality is also very important to a writer. And all of the writers I’ve mentioned, of course, are original, but it’s important to me that every book that I do be really a completely fresh and new look at the world.
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Book Course Every Fresh Important Look Mention Original World Writer
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
That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination,
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Achievement Age Fact Flood Great Image Megabit Planet So Throughout
For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.
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Dull Habit Memory Only Passion Physical
I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas.
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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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Simplu Already Down Exploration Lot Put Write Writer
In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
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Carefully Extremely Fiction Handle Idea Write
To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
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I believe that we need to slow down.
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Believe Down Need Slow

For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness.

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For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness.

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