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The following are previously unclassified quotes about Mathematics, Computers & Complexity, now classified under that heading, now classified under that heading, and under subheadings alphabetically by author and date, as a temporary intermediate step towards integrating them into my quotes pages proper.
"A-life may already have achieved this goal, according to the evolutionary biologist John Maynard Smith of the University of Sussex. Smith, who pioneered the use of mathematics in biology, took an early interest in work at the Santa Fe Institute and has twice spent a week visiting there. But he has concluded that artificial life is `basically a fact-free science.' During his last visit, he recalls, `the only time a fact was mentioned was when I mentioned it, and that was considered to be in rather bad taste.'" (Horgan J., "From Complexity to Perplexity," Scientific American, Vol. 272, No. 6, June 1995, p.77)
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Created: 20 July, 2003. Updated: 8 July, 2005.