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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.

Alan Lightman

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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As a scientist, I don’t believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.
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Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing by rain?
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Anything Love Person Possible Pure Want
Novels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline.
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All writers have roots they draw from – travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
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I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society – which is true in all his books.
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Our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We’ve become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.
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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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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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In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,
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And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence.
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The relationship between science and the humanities is two-way. Science changes our view of the world and our place in it. In the other direction, the humanities provide the store of ideas and images and language available to us in understanding the world.
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For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world, a feeling of shared connection with other living things, a desire to help people less fortunate than ourselves.
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When I used to play golf. It’s a terrible miserable game. It’s incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots off in the woods, in the water…
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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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After a while the car becomes just another thing that he owns. Moreover, when his neighbor next door buys two cars, in an instant our man feels wretchedly poor and deprived.
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