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Vannevar Bush Quotes

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
Vannevar Bush

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Scientist Quotes
Category:
American Scientist Quotes
Date of Birth:
March 11, 1890
Date of Death:
June 30, 1974
Nationality:
American
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