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Bernard M. Oliver
(27 May 1916 - 23 Nov 1995)
American electrical engineer who developed pulse-code modulation (PCM) with John R. Pierce and Claude Shannon, and headed the HP calculators development team.
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Science Quotes by Bernard M. Oliver (1 quote)
It is time that science, having destroyed the religious basis for morality, accepted the obligation to provide a new and rational basis for human behavior—a code of ethics concerned with man’s needs on earth, not his rewards in heaven.
— Bernard M. Oliver
In 'Toward a New Morality,' IEEE Spectrum, 1972.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
