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If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world
Vannevar Bush
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Vannevar Bush
Age: 84 †
Born: 1890
Born: March 11
Died: 1974
Died: June 28
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Vanevar Bush
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