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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.

Originality Is Also Very Important To A Writer. And All Of The Writers I've Mentioned, Of Course, Are Original, But It's Important To Me That Every Book That I Do Be Really A Completely Fresh And New Look At The World. And Of Course, That Makes It Frightening To Start A New Book Because You Can't Really Depend Upon What You've Done With Previous Books.

It Is A World Of Impulse. It Is A World Of Sincerity. It Is A World In Which Every Word Spoken Speaks Just To That Moment, Every Glance Given Has Only One Meaning, Each Touch Has No Past Or No Future, Each Kiss Is A Kiss Of Immediacy.

But What Is The Past? Could It Be, The Firmness Of The Past Is Just Illusion? Could The Past Be A Kaleidoscope, A Pattern Of Images That Shift With Each Disturbance Of A Sudden Breeze, A Laugh, A Thought? And If The Shift Is Everywhere, How Would We Know?

As A Scientist, I Don't Believe Science Will Ever Discover Whether God Exists. Nor Do I Believe Religion Will Ever Prove It.