The progress of science requires the growth of understanding in both directions, downward from the whole to the parts and upward from the parts to the whole. (Freeman Dyson)

The progress of science requires the growth of understanding in both directions, downward from the whole to the parts and upward from the parts to the whole.

Freeman Dyson

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