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We have now arrived within introductory range of that very meek-spirited creature known to modern science as the 'Observer'. It is a permanent obstacle in the path of our search for external reality that we can never entirely get rid of this individual.

John William Dunne

It is never entirely safe to laugh at the metaphysics of the 'man-in-the-street'. Basic ideas which have become enshrined in popular language cannot be wholly foolish or unwarranted.

John William Dunne

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.

John William Dunne

John William Dunne

John William Dunne

Born: 1875

Died: August 24, 1949 (aged 74)

Bio: John William Dunne FRAeS was a British soldier, aeronautical engineer and philosopher. As a young man he fought in the Second Boer War, before becoming a pioneering aeroplane designer in the early years of the 20th century.

Known for:

An Experiment with Time (1927)
The New Immortality (1938)
Sunshine and the Dry Fly (1924)
Nothing Dies (1940)

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