¶ Discovery
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Discovery:
“I have always been confident as I explored synergetics looking for nature’s own coordinate system, that inasmuch as I was not inventing a coordinate system, but was trying to find one that nature had, nature & had this all the time, and it seemed to me very logical that men long before us might really have discovered some of nature’s coordinating, might have run into the same kind of phenomena. There it was, and it was not going to change through the ages at all because we are dealing with fundamental principles of Universe that are utterly timeless and independent of size, shape and time. I have often felt a strange curious feeling as I made a discovery that some one had known this before. Going around the world I watched for some kind of manifestation in the design of some object that would tell me that people in that part of the world had at some time known the things that I was discovering. You can see that I have a very definite kind of a pattern of world which I could recognize and I did begin to find some of the pattern in Burma and Thailand and I have been able to trace the relationshipsof these patterns into the world of navigation and building ships.”
