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In any field, the Establishment is seldom in pursuit of the truth, because it is composed of those who sincerely believe that they are already in possession of it.
Edwin Thompson Jaynes
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Edwin Thompson Jaynes
Age: 75 †
Born: 1922
Born: July 5
Died: 1998
Died: April 30
Mathematician
Physicist
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Waterloo
Iowa
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