Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Banesh Hoffmann

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Last updated on September 19, 2024.

Banesh Hoffmann was a British mathematician and physicist known for his association with Albert Einstein.

British - Mathematician | September 6, 1906 - August 5, 1986

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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

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

No longer was light analogous to the discharge of a blunderbuss, but rather to the pulsating flight of birds.

Banesh Hoffmann

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

Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Banesh Hoffmann

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