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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
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Alan Lightman
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: November 28
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Alan Paige Lightman
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