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Word: peneplain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that he is a great mathematician, accuse him of sensationalism. Wiener's admirers reply that such bickering is only to be expected in a field as lively as cybernetics. Peace does not reign in a science, they say, until its peaks and valleys have worn to a featureless peneplain grazed by placid ruminants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Thinking Machine | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

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