Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furn… - Hans Christian von Baeyer

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Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool.

Hans Christian von Baeyer

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Hans Christian von Baeyer (born 1938) is a Chancellor Professor of Physics at the College of William and Mary.

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If you don't understand something, break it apart; reduce it to its components. Since they are simpler than the whole,you have a much better chance of understanding them; and when you have succeeded in doing that, put the whole thing back together again.

Underneath the shifting appearances of the world as perceived by our unreliable senses, is there, or is there not, a bedrock of objective reality?

Information gently but relentlessly drizzles down on us in an invisible, impalpable electric rain.

Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool. - Hans Christian von Baeyer

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