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Alan Lightman

The exploding star of A.D. 1054, the Crab Nebula, was sighted and documented by the Chinese, but nowhere mentioned in the West, where the Aristotelian notion of the immortality of stars still held sway.
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Document Explode Held Immortality Mentioned Slight
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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Belief Include Larger Ourselves Spirituality Thing
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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Book Course Depend Done Frighten Make Previous
In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
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Dimension Space Three Time World
While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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Ahead Back Brood Doubt Look People
Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea.
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Another Strand Idea Importance Write
Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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Essay Population Raed Serious Small Thinker Writer
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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During Important Listen Ourselves Thing Time
Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].
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Cost Determine Free Future Immortality No Person Such Whole Woman
I 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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Consider Essayist Fiction Myself Writer
One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time.
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Arcade Instrument Arch Avenue Beneath Browse Build Converse Down Enter Friend Sandstone Time
I believe that we need to slow down.
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Believe Down Need Slow
No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.
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Exist God Know Nature Sense
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
The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.
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Accident History Phenomena Recast Science View
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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Different Life Point Reader Singer Something

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