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The sciences that deal with natural process, geology or geography, or with life, zoology or botany, have an immensely more complicated task than physics or chemistry.

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A particular danger, I believe, lies in an oversimplified use of mathematical or statistical methods of investigation, in which obviously erroneous results may be obtained by a selection of only a few of many relevant factors to be considered.

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Physics, chemistry, astrophysics are obviously the ideal field for the tidy mind...in the biological and geological sciences the tidy mind often goes astray and the passive, unmathematical approach may me more suitable.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Claud William Wright

Claud William Wright

Born: January 9, 1917
Died: February 15, 2010 (aged 93)
Bio: Claud William Wright CB, aka Willy Wright, was a senior British civil servant who was also an expert in the disciplines of geology, palaeontology, and archaeology.

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