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The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.

Alan Lightman

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
it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn’t there. Or ignore what is.
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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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Answer Human Being might Need Question Someday Well
And of course, that makes it frightening to start a new book because you can’t really depend upon what you’ve done with previous books.
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Book Course Depend Done Frighten Make Previous
A world with one month is a world of equality.
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Equality Month One Liner World
If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and running a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women in Cambodia.
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I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary.
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Complementary Humanistic Look Scientific Think Way World
Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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Alone Each Get Person Stuck Time
Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
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I should have written books instead of reading them.
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To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
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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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I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.
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Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
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