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Our Yearning for Immortality: Alan Lightman on one of the most Profound Contradictions of Human Existence

“Science does not reveal the meaning of our existence, but it does draw back some of the veils.” *** “Be not deceived,” Epictetus writes in The Discourses, “every animal …

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