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I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie.

Alan Lightman

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
All of these things can occur with or without God. I do not believe in the existence of God, but I consider myself a spiritual person in the manner I have just described. I call myself a spiritual atheist. I would imagine that many people are spiritual atheists.
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Appreciation Consider Existence Larger Nature Spiritual Thing
Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting. Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational.
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Bet Irrational Rational Scientific Stop
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
Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings.
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Arousal Chemical Ending Flow More never Sexual
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
“The Diagnosis” is by far my most ambitious book. I such great hopes for it… there was so much I wanted to do with the book. I was extremely insecure about it for several years.
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Ambitious Book Diagnosis Far Great Hope Most
So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.
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Amount Little Live Many Nothing So
It’s not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don’t count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.
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Affect Culture Large Necessary Number People
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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Continent Disagree Eternal Fix Frozen Life
The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
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Dep Discover History Human Imagine Invent Know Seem Unknown Urge
Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.
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Book Challenge Film Go Make Quiet
Rather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. … It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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Act Each Impulse Island Judge Own Rather Sincerity World
I go to live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails.
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Computer E-mail Live Merciful Service Summer Talk Telephone
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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Draw Family Root Travel Work Writer
There are important differences which should be preserved, and in trying to do away with those differences we would lose something the same way as if we tried to make all religions one religion or all races one race.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Difference Important Lose Preserve Same Something

I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie.

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I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie.

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