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In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.

Alan Lightman

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 value my correspondence with writers…
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Correspondance Value Writer
People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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Content Contradictory Long People Reason World
The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
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Being Belief Disbelief Faith Matter
I think people all over the institution recognize that different ways of understanding are valuable. Artists may think in a different way than biologists or chemists, but you can learn something from that.
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Different Institute Over People Recognize Think Understanding Valuable
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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Human Imagination Machine Match Mind Since Technology Unlikely
That’s an exciting thing. In a class of fifteen there are usually two very good writers, equal to good student writers anywhere in the country. Those two make the class wonderful.
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Anywhere Class Equal Good Excite Student Thing Wonderful Writer
Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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Alone Each Get Person Stuck Time
While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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Ahead Back Broot Look People Skip Time
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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Actual Cosmo Irrational Perhaps Rational World
One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones.
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Cell How Live Metaphor One People Phone
It’s not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don’t count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.
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Affect Culture Large Necessary Number People
A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.
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Action Contemplate Future Imagine Person Result
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
If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
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Darkness Real Story Told
The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
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Go Move Sister We Where World

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