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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.

Alan Lightman

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
Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order.
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Law Nature Order
Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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Alone Each Get Person Stuck Time
The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.
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Blurry Faster Get Go Hold Move Really Reason Something Thing World
Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
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Aftre Begin Down Ecept Gof Sit Universe
If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and running a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women in Cambodia.
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Already Doing Done Money More Spend Thing Time Water
The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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Future Order Organisation Past Pattern Point
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
They came back to the nest in the middle of April. They take separate vacations in the winter – the mother and father.
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April Back Came Enter Father Middle Mother Separate Vacation
I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
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Always Book Film Long Made Think
It’s the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.
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Country Lead Philosophy Republic
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
Children curse their parents for their wrinkled skin and hoarse voices. Those now old children also want to stop time, but at another time. They want to freeze their own children at the center of time.
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Center Children Curse Parent Time Voice Wrinkle
Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.
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Care Evidence Kinship Nature Oneness Strongly Suggest Tornadoes
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
In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.
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Different Each Fiction Group Influence Several Stand Woven Write

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