As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious belief that would, in my view, be compatible with science.

Alan Lightman
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  4. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

  5. Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.

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