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What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or universe always operating at an elegance level that made the discovering scientist's working hypotheses seem crude by comparison. the discovered reality made the scientists exploratory work seem relatively disorderly.
-R. Buckminster Fuller
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R. Buckminster Fuller
What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or universe always operating at an elegance level that made the discovering scientist's working hypotheses seem crude by comparison. the discovered reality made the scientists exploratory work seem relatively disorderly.
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