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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.

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
“The Diagnosis” had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the last year or so it was making small changes.
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Book Change Diagnosis Draft Significant Ten Through Whole Wholesale
Like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.
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Air Begin Breathe Central Existence Intelligent Like Passage Time
Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting. Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational.
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Bet Irrational Rational Scientific Stop
That’s the fine balance of a fiction writer…to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.
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Artistic Balance Character Control Fiction Fine Freedom Maintain Surprise Writer
To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
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Atheist Belief Both End Room Spiritual Think
It’s exciting having a student who is not used to expressing their emotional side and bringing that out in them and see that developing and helping to nurture that.
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Bring Develop Emotional Excite Express Nurture Side Student Use
When they are on their cell phones they are not where their bodies are…they are somewhere else in hyperspace. They are not grounded.
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Body Cell Ground Hyperspace Phone Somewhere
Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree.
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Continent Disagree Eternal Fix Frozen Life
That someone else was speaking the words to me and I was just writing them down. It was a very strange experience. That can happen with a short book. I don’t think it could happen with a long book.
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Book Down Experience Happen Shor Someone Speak Strange
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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Alone Joy Life Person Share Stuck Tragedy
I have a family and you know very well the time that that takes. That’s good time. I have a couple hobbies. I’m a runner and play tennis. In the summer my family and I uproot ourselves and go live in Maine for the summer.
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It’s the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.
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The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
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Dep Discover History Human Imagine Invent Know Seem Unknown Urge
I was in New York and had lunch with Oliver Sachs and compared notes with him – he is someone I really like.
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Compare Country Food Like Lunch Note Really Someone
Oh, love is very much a physical thing…. I realize that it’s very complicated, and I’m sure it can’t be traced to individual neurons and hormones, but I think it’s very much a physiological sensation that takes place in the brain.
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Love Much Physical Thing

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