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Alan Lightman
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: November 28
Astrophysicist
Novelist
Physicist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Memphis
Tennessee
Alan Paige Lightman
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Lost
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A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.
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You've made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
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Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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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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In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
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I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
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The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
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Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn't care one whit about us. Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.
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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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Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.
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There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the center of time, its vibrations slowed to echoes in vast canyons, its intensity reduced to the faint glow of fireflies.
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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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Oh, love is very much a physical thing.... I realize that it's very complicated, and I'm sure it can't be traced to individual neurons and hormones, but I think it's very much a physiological sensation that takes place in the brain.
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Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
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In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final. In a world without future, each laugh is the last laugh. In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff.
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I should have written books instead of reading them.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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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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I consider myself a spiritual atheist. I certainly believe there are forces bigger than ourselves, and that we should be searching, individually, for meaning in our lives. But I don't believe there's a supreme being, an intelligence that created everything.
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