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I should have written books instead of reading them.
Alan Lightman
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Alan Lightman
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: November 28
Astrophysicist
Novelist
Physicist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Memphis
Tennessee
Alan Paige Lightman
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I have a number of vague ideas where I just have the core or kernel of the idea. I feel like I need some time for my mind to fill up again. I feel empty. Right now.
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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.
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Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
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Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order. The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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