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Alan Lightman

"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."

Source : "Reviewing Mr g: Physicist-turned-novelist Alan Lightman meets God at the intersection of science and religion". Interview With Greg Quill, www.thestar.com. February 12, 2012.

Alan Lightman

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“When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life.”
“I look at my career and I feel like I havenâ€™t even started yet. I feel like I havenâ€™t even begun to shift the planet. But Iâ€™m so excited because Rock of Ages is one of the first steps of that new phase in my life.”
“There's some sorta big bar-be-que goin' on here in turn three. There's smoke all over the track! Some fan's got a big one goin' on.”
“If I ever loved a man better than I love my art, I should marry him and leave the stage. But I have never met such a man.”
“There's imperfect food out there that just needs a mouth to bite into it.”

Source : "How ugly food can end hunger". Interview with Lauren Lee-Johnson, edition.cnn.com. November 23, 2015.
“Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.”
“The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it.”
“In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.”

"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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