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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.

Alan Lightman

The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.
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Deal Know Speak Time Unable
it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn’t there. Or ignore what is.
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Hard Ignore Invent Real Sometimes Tell There
As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious belief that would, in my view, be compatible with science.
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Humanist Myself Scientific
You can’t let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.
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Breathe Character Idea Just Live Mouthpiece Own
The Book of Telling tells of a woman’s journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process.
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Book Father Journey Life Process Secret Tell Uncover Woman
As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not.
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Contemporary Do Intervene God Know Law Long Physical Science Universe Violate Way
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
I value my correspondence with writers…
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Correspondance Value Writer
Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
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Illogic Justification Logic Postdiction Prediction
We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality.
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Both Conception External Impose Mind Order Reality
Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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Acid Bit Cerebellum More Sadness Transfix
One day I’m going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask what else I do, I feel like this is part of what I do….is to watch these birds.
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Bloodstream Book Day Deep Gom Got One Osprey Real Write
I would bet most people don’t have thirty minutes in a day where they can just sit down and think. Or maybe they don’t have to be sitting, they can be walking.
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Down Maybe Minute People Sit Think
It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning.
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Glance Meaning Moment Speak Spoken World
Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.
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Destination Intellectual Journey Science
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

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