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“As I understand it, a universe is a ... well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.”

Quote by Alan Lightman

Book:Mr g: A Novel About the Creation

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Mr g: A Novel About the Creation

This novel delves into the mysteries of creation, intertwining the author's interpretations of scientific theories with philosophical musings. The story takes readers on a journey through the cosmos, examining the evolution of life and the search for meaning in the universe. more

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Alan Lightman is an American physicist and an accomplished writer. Born on November 28, 1948, he is renowned for his contributions to physics and his literary achievements that blend science and fiction. more

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“The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences. Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.”

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Author:Alan Lightman

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“The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.”

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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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Book:Mr g: A Novel About the Creation

Source: Mr g: A Novel About the Creation

“As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not. The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.”

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Book:The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew

Source: The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew

“Unfortunately, public debates do not have much room for subtlety. The audience wants a quick thrust at your opponent, not a slow and convoluted series of moves. Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.”

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Author:Alan Lightman

“A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That's a sign of a good novel. 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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Author:Alan Lightman

“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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“I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary. 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. There is a cultural diversity that's very valuable, and it's valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.”

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“Don't you feel something magical when you're in love?... I do, I certainly do ... but I think that feeling of magic is a hardwired psychological response. It's a chemical thing in the brain. It's a flow of chemicals and electrical currents, and it developed over millions of years in the process of evolution to aid in the procreation of the species.”

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Author:Alan Lightman