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Like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.

Alan Lightman

As a scientist, I don’t believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Belive Discover Ever Exist God Prove Religion Scientist
I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.
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Correspondance Enough Some Stay Writer Written
I have a number of vague ideas where I just have the core or kernel of the idea. I feel like I need some time for my mind to fill up again. I feel empty. Right now.
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Core Idea Kernel Number Vague
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 second squirms and wriggles like a bluefish in a bay. The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along.
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Along Bluefish Make Mind Predetrmine Second Squirm Unyield Wriggle
In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of Lake Geneva, people look at their watches and take refuge in time.
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Boat Building Coffee Government House Look Refuge Time Watch
A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile…But this happy sensation wears off.
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Automobile Bicycle Buy Happy Life Nothing Own Sensation Suddenly Wealthy Wear
My second novel, “Good Benito”, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.
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Another Finish Good Novel Second Wish Year
Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.
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End Fact Have Impersonal Live Product Scientist
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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Escape Father Free Immortality Own Person Shadow Some Son
Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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Ago Billion Breathed Century Live Only People Two Year
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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Become Buy Car Deprive Door Feel Man Moreover Neighbour Poor
I should have written books instead of reading them.
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Book Instead Read Should Write
In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.
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Artist Joyful Life Music Novel Paint Unpredictability World
I wouldn’t overall say that “The Diagnosis” is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It’s a modern tragedy.
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Book Comic Diagnosis Funny Modern Overall Tragedy
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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