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Human civilization as we know it will end, sometime in the 21st century. - David Goodstein
" "Human civilization as we know it will end, sometime in the 21st century.
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About David Goodstein
(April 5, 1939 – April 10, 2024) was an American physicist and served as professor of physics and as Vice-provost at the . He wrote several books, including (1996). In the 1980s he was the director and host of , an educational television series on physics that was adapted for high school use and translated into many other languages. The series garnered more than a dozen prestigious awards, including the 1987 Japan Prize for television.
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