Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. (Marilyn Ferguson)

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.

Marilyn Ferguson

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