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Most of us have grown so blase about computer developments and capabilities — even some that are spectacular — that it is difficult to believe or imagine there was a time when we suffered the noisy, painstakingly slow, electromechanical devices that chomped away on punched cards.

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Science is the locomotive that drives our civilization.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Nicholas Metropolis

Nicholas Metropolis

Born: June 11, 1915
Died: October 17, 1999 (aged 84)
Bio: Nicholas Constantine Metropolis was an American physicist.

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