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There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the eighteenth-century ideal of humane civilized life.

Rene Dubos

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Rene Dubos
Age: 80 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 20
Died: 1982
Died: February 20
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René Jules Dubos
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