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Alan Lightman

We try to connect. We try to find truth. We dream and we hope. And underneath all of these strivings, we are haunted by the suspicion that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the whole.
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There is a cultural diversity that’s very valuable, and it’s valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.
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Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?
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The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.
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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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Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return.
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Anything Give Love People Return Unconditional Want
Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.
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In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.
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The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
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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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Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself.
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You make one good shot and it brings you back the next time. With writing a long book there has to be at least one bit that has some magic in it that you can go back to.
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Back Bring Good Least Magic Next One Some Time
The second squirms and wriggles like a bluefish in a bay. The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along.
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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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