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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.

~Alan Lightman

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For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness, like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.

~Alan Lightman

Topics: About Air Arrangement Beings Breathe Central Consciousness Existence Fact Gives In Fact Intelligent Interesting Know Like May Me Most Neurons Never Our Particular Passage Problem Rise Science Time

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All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

~Alan Lightman

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Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it's a good starting place for me.

~Alan Lightman

Topics: Affect Any Because Concern Discipline Emotional Experience Good Humans Imagination Instructions Instruments Issues Law Many Me Novel Novels Other Physics Place Raised Science Starting Trip

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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.

~Alan Lightman

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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.

~Alan Lightman

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Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.

~Alan Lightman

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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.

~Alan Lightman

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I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science. All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.

~Alan Lightman

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Physicist

Born: November 28th, 1948

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