“The role of science is to be systematic, to be accurate, to be orderly, but it certainly is not to imply that the aggregated, successful hypotheses of the past have the kind of truth that goes into a number system.”

— Edwin H. Land

Generation of Greatness (1957)

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American scientist and inventor 1909–1991

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