I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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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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I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition.
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Don’t you feel something magical when you’re in love?… I do, I certainly do … but I think that feeling of magic is a hardwired psychological response. It’s a chemical thing in the brain.
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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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With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice.
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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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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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And of course, that makes it frightening to start a new book because you can’t really depend upon what you’ve done with previous books.
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That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination,
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At every point of decision, the world splits into three worlds, each with the same people, but different fates for those people. In time, there are an infinity of worlds.
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I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
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Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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We don’t have the time, literally, to think during the day. To listen to ourselves think. To think about where we are going, who we are, what’s important.
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I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.
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Sons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own…Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free.
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