"Jeremy Bernstein" is an American theoretical physicist and science essayist.

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At zero there was the flash. The first thing I saw was a yellow-orange fireball . . . . A mushroom-shaped cloud of glowing magenta began to rise over the desert where the explosion had been. My first thought was, "My God, that is beautiful!"

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Television is just the wrong medium, at least in prime time, to teach science. I think it is hopeless if it insists on behaving like television. . . .

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[T]he number of neurons in the brain is very much larger than the number of components in a computer. . .

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