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It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces.

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Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: November 25th, 1913

Died: December 3rd, 1993

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