Quote #21

I think that to understand light we'll have to understand the structure underlying time and space more deeply. you can see that these issues are related in the sense that light transcends the present structure of time and space and we will never understand it properly in that present structure.

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  8. The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

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