A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of … - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1 July 1742 – 24 February 1799) was a German scientist, satirist, and philosopher.

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