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Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the contrary notwithstanding.
Percy Williams Bridgman
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Percy Williams Bridgman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1882
Born: April 21
Died: 1961
Died: August 20
Physicist
University Teacher
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Percy Bridgman
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