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title: "2 J.W. Dunne Quotes"
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# J.W. Dunne

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John William Dunne was a British soldier, aeronautical engineer and philosopher. As a young man he fought in the Second Boer War, before becoming a pioneering aeroplane designer in the early years of the 20th century. Dunne worked on automatically stable aircraft, many of which were of tailless swep

##  Quotes by J.W. Dunne

> [“Where all is fog, a blind man with a stick is not entirely at a disadvantage.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-w-dunne/where-all-is-fog-a-blind-man-with-a-stick-is-not-entirely-at-a/)

[J.W. Dunne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-w-dunne/)

[Blind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/blind/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e01/j-w-dunne-106131_blind_where-all-is-fog-a-blind-man-with-a-stic_724838.jpg)

> [“In my own case, I employed this experiment mainly in order to seek for the barrier, if any, which divides our knowledge…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-w-dunne/in-my-own-case-i-employed-this-experiment-mainly-in-order-to-seek-for/)

[J.W. Dunne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-w-dunne/)

[Barrier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/barrier/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f18/j-w-dunne-106131_barrier_in-my-own-case-i-employed-this-experimen_2455228.jpg)

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