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In the name of love?

Alan Lightman¹^na1

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By defining ideas precisely, as science does, fiction would deny its readers freedom of interpretation.

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the author of Einstein's Dreams and The Diagnosis. Adapted from “The physicist as novelist” in The Future of Spacetime, edited by Richard H. Price (W. W. Norton, New York, in the press).

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adjunct professor of humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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Lightman, A. In the name of love?. Nature 413, 681 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35099636

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