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John William Dunne war ein irischer Erfinder und Flugzeugpionier. Er diente in der britischen Armee. Dunne war der Erste, der Nurflügelflugzeuge in Pfeilform baute. Wikipedia  

✵ 1875 – 24. August 1949
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“We must live before we can attain to either intelligence or control at all. We must sleep if we are not to find ourselves, at death, helplessly strange to the new conditions. And we must die before we can hope to advance to a broader understanding.”

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John William Dunne buch An Experiment with Time

Quelle: An Experiment with Time (1927), p. 111

“But the facts are unquestioned. The aeroplane does these things, and if the theory does not give warranty for the practice, then it is the theory which is wrong.”

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John William Dunne

Lecture to the Royal Aeronautical Society (1913)

“Now, when we say of any occurrence that it is 'physical', we mean thereby that it is potentially describable in physical terms. (Otherwise the expression would be wholly meaningless.) So it is perfectly correct, to state that, in every happening with which our sensory nerves are associated, we find, after we have abstracted therefrom every known or imaginable physical component, certain categorically nonphysical residue.”

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John William Dunne buch An Experiment with Time

Quelle: An Experiment with Time (1927), p. 5

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