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born 1959 England

Stephen Wolfram (born 29 August 1959) is a British scientist known for his work in theoretical particle physics, cellular automata, complexity theory, and computer algebra. He is the creator of the computer program Mathematica.

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Time is the inexorable process of doing computation.

Problem 9. What is the correspondence between cellular automata and continuous systems?

It's clear that we can go further than the quantum mechanics that I've known for the last fifty years.

Could it be that some place out there in the computational universe, we might find our physical universe?

Computing a Theory of Everything (2010)

I think Computation is destined to be the defining idea of our future.

Computing a Theory of Everything (2010)

It's a feature of new paradigms that ... pitchforks come out with new paradigms.

I think there is an infinite collection of these local pockets [of reducibility]. We'll never run out...

Stephen Wolfram: Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe (2020)

It's always seemed like a big mystery how nature, seemingly so effortlessly, manages to produce so much that seems to us so complex. Well, I think we found its secret. It's just sampling what's out there in the computational universe.

Computing a Theory of Everything (2010)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Stephen Wolfram (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.