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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.

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Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present,…
Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as rigid and…
With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the…
Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost…
In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final. In…
In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not…
In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and…
We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or…
All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for…

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This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the… — Stephen Batchelor
I don't know whether God exists or not. ... Some forms of atheism are arrogant and ignorant and should be rejected, but… — Karl Popper
Define the word exist, and you'll know whether God exists. — Bill Gaede
Just because you're 40, you don't have to decide whether God exists...when you're already worrying that the National Security Agency is reading… — Pamela Druckerman
One thing I have no worry about is whether God exists. But it has occurred to me that God has Alzheimer's and… — Jane Wagner
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
Look, I don't know whether God exists. I don't know that. And I tell you one thing, I am not frightened of… — Alan Dershowitz
Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do?… — Richard Stallman
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths. — Denis Diderot
But never in the four hundred years now since I was born, have I ever seen anything to make me doubt whether… — Stephenie Meyer
His eyes softened. "But it doesn't change what we are to each other. It's like there's always been a piece of my… — Cassandra Clare
I know I told you once that whether God exists or not, we're on our own. But when I'm with you, I'm… — Cassandra Clare

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