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I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we're required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection. I believe that we need to slow down.

~Alan Lightman

Topics: Believe Down Everything Fast Fast Food Faster Food Gotten Input Less Less Time Mentality More Need Our Quickly Reflection Representative Required Respond Slow States Think Thought Time United United States Where I Think I Believe I Believe That E-Mail

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We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not. And if we can't unplug from that machine, eventually we're going to become mindless.

~Alan Lightman

Topics: Become Big Conscious Day Eventually Going Hours Machine Mindless Now Part Unplug Whether 24 Hours

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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.

~Alan Lightman

Topics: Belief Both Claims Come Compatible Different Eventually Humanist Kind Knowledge Myself Religious Religious Belief Science Scientist Struggled Understand View Would

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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. I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.

~Alan Lightman

Topics: About Also Distorted Exploring Feel Fiction Highly Imaginative Interesting Learned Like Long Long Time Loved Magic Michael Our Our World Realist Time Truths World Worlds Writers Writing

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With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.

~Alan Lightman

Topics: Am Background Border Ethical Extremely Ground Interested Meeting Philosophy Questions Science Theology I Am

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If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and running a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women in Cambodia.

~Alan Lightman

Topics: Am Cambodia Doing Empower Include Mission More Nonprofit Organization Physics Research Running Spend Teaching Things Time Were Which Women Would Writer I Am

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I've taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it's a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.

~Alan Lightman

Topics: Abuse Although Communication Good Lot Philosophical Position Quite Quite A Lot Taken Technology Think Uses Wonderful I Think E-Mail

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I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I'd like to use my time more carefully.

~Alan Lightman

Topics: Carefully Every First Friends Going Hour Like Many Me Messages More Morning My Time Spend Tell Through Time Too Use Who E-Mail

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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.

~Alan Lightman

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Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.

~Alan Lightman

Topics: Across Child Consider Course Cultures Cutting Emotional Experience Languages Life Most Music My Life Piano Studied Ten Ten Years Universal Valuable Years

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Physicist

Born: November 28th, 1948

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