"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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Source : Alan Lightman (2014). “The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew”, p.37, Vintage

Alan Lightman

#Law Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Long Quotes

“What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.”
“I spent my childhood outdoors on my grandparents' farm. I learned to ride a motorbike when I was about six, a little PeeWee 50. I'd climb trees - there was a big weeping willow.”
“Every woman needs to know the facts. And the fact is, when it comes to breast cancer, every woman is at risk.”
“Let the gentleman go to Revelation to learn the decree of God - let him go to the Bible. . . . I said that slavery was sanctioned in the Bible, authorized, regulated, and recognized from Genesis to Revelation. . . . Slavery existed then in the earliest ages, and among the chosen people of God; and in Revelation we are told that it shall exist till the end of time shall come. You find it in the Old and New Testaments - in the prophecies, psalms, and the epistles of Paul; you find it recognized - sanctioned everywhere.”
“I wanted to be a jockey.”
“If you have a pulse, you have a purpose!”
“I think everyone's journey through this crazy, weird, wild, wonderful area of work named acting is really their own. And if you're going for something that isn't yours, you're wasting time. You could be focused on your own work instead of thinking about somebody else.”
“Prom night can be a special night, if you let it be. I know you think it's for losers and something that popular kids do because they are boring people with porcelain hearts who don't know what it means to be lonely. But you're wrong. Prom is a chance for everyone to try oral sex. Go for it.”

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