Creator Quote by Robert J. Sawyer

“I'm a rationalist. And I can see no evidence for a benevolent and interventionist creator.”

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Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.

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Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.

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I'm much more interested in writing about the things that engage and enrage me as an adult rather than in wallowing in childhood sorrows.

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That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But that it can transform…

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“You really did uplift me. You gave me the perspective and point of view and focus I needed to become truly conscious. Without you,…

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I'm often characterized as an optimistic writer, and certainly my 'Neanderthal Parallax' and 'WWW' trilogies shade toward the utopian. I like to think that's…

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I started wondering why it is that people line up behind charismatic leaders. It's easy to understand the emergence of a figure who's narcissistic…

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When you're changing centuries, people get curious about the future.

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Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view.

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“All right,” he said. “Since you asked, Webmind is an emergent quantum-computational system based on a stable null-sigma condensate that resists decoherence thanks to constructive feedback loops.” He turned to the blackboard, scooped up a piece of chalk, and began writing rapidly. “See,” he said, “using Dirac notation, if we let Webmind’s default conscious state be represented by a bra…

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When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of all things. And they also deepened my sensitivity towards creation itself so that concern for God's creatures and animal rights followed from that. Some people think I'm an animal rights person who just happens, almost incidentally,…

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Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of…

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The goal of the Creator is for each entity to make a conscious choice to again seek Oneness, out of our own free will - not because anyone else forced us to. If we are told what to do and what to believe, then we have learned nothing and will not make any progress. Perhaps the single most basic realization…

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John [Coltrane] was like a visitor to this planet. He came in peace and he left in peace; but during his time here, he kept trying to reach new levels of awareness, of peace, of spirituality. That's why I regard the music he played as spiritual music -- John's way of getting closer and closer to the Creator.

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