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The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.

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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.
Werner Heisenberg

John Rousmaniere

John Rousmaniere
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Born: 1944 (age 81)
Bio: John Rousmaniere is an American writer, sailor and author of 30 historical. technical, and instructional books on sailing, yachting history, New York history, business history, and clubs.
Known for:
  1. The Annapolis Book of Seamanship (1983)
  2. Fastnet, Force 10 (1980)
  3. The illustrated dictionary of boating terms (1998)

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