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“The pressure for conformity is enormous. I have experienced it in editors’ rejection of submitted papers, based on venomous criticism of anonymous referees. The replacement of impartial reviewing by censorship will be the death of science.”

Quote by Julian Schwinger

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Julian Schwinger

Julian Schwinger was a renowned theoretical physicist known for his contributions to quantum electrodynamics. He shared the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physics with Richard Feynman and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga for their work on quantum electrodynamics. more

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