Banesh Hoffmann quotes

“To pry into the secrets of this world, we must make experiments. But experiment is a clumsy instrument, afflicted with a fatal determinacy which destroys causality.”
-- Banesh Hoffmann

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“Every new discovery in science brings with it a host of new problems, just as the invention of the automobile brought with it gas stations, roads, garages, mechanics, and a thousand other subsidiary details.”
-- Banesh Hoffmann

Source : Banesh Hoffmann (1959). “The Strange Story of the Quantum: An Account for the General Reader of the Growth of the Ideas Underlying Our Present Atomic Knowledge”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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“No longer was light analogous to the discharge of a blunderbuss, but rather to the pulsating flight of birds.”
-- Banesh Hoffmann

Source : Banesh Hoffmann (1959). “The Strange Story of the Quantum: An Account for the General Reader of the Growth of the Ideas Underlying Our Present Atomic Knowledge”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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“But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and direction and to combine according to the parallelogram law; and many of them are not at all reminiscent of journeys.”
-- Banesh Hoffmann

Source : Banesh Hoffmann (2012). “About Vectors”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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“Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.”

“My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“Don't Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret. Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read”

“There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time”

“I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 3, 1895.

“God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.”

“A divided heart loses both worlds.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

“Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.”

“The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.”

“This isn't about 'causality' but about 'influence'. The evidence is clear that human-induced climate change is influencing the drought, no matter the cause.”