It’s the journeyto get there. It’s a way of thinking and it’s an intellectual curiosity, a desire to know how the world works, and to know what the fundamental principles of the world are, and to know our place in it.
ALAN LIGHTMANI 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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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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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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I value my correspondence with writers…
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You say, “Something important really happened here. I really had hold of something I was visited by the muse.” And that’s enough to make you continue the months and years to finish the whole book.
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In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads.
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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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If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
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Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
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I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
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I believe that we need to slow down.
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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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