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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.

Alan Lightman

Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Anything Give Love People Return Unconditional Want
Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.
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Across Course Culture Cut Emotional Experience Language Music
I spend a lot of time just listening to the ospreys. I watch them go through their life cycle. They spend the winter in South America.
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Cycle Life Listen Lot Osprey Spend Time Watch
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
I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Always Book Film Long Made Think
But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of images that shift with each disturbance of a sudden breeze, a laugh, a thought? And if the shift is everywhere, how would we know?
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Breeze Disturbance Firmness Illusion Image Kaleidoscope Past Pattern Sudden
Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
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Bak Bend Circle Itself Suppose Time
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
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.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Dull Habit Memory Only Passion Physical
The loved one will never take his arms from where they are now, will never give back the bracelet of memories, will never journey afar from his lover, will never place himself in danger of self-sacrifice.
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Danger Fall Jealous Journey Love Memory Self Someone
Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions?
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Argue Decision Light Make Occur Possible Some
You can’t let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Breathe Character Idea Just Live Mouthpiece Own
All of these things can occur with or without God. I do not believe in the existence of God, but I consider myself a spiritual person in the manner I have just described. I call myself a spiritual atheist. I would imagine that many people are spiritual atheists.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Appreciation Consider Existence Larger Nature Spiritual Thing
When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed outside their own mental and physiological processes.
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Clock Crisp First Interval Invent Make Mechanical Time
As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not.
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Contemporary Do Intervene God Know Law Long Physical Science Universe Violate Way
I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Correspondance Enough Some Stay Writer Written

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