Banesh Hoffmann Professions : Mathematician Born : September 6, 1906 Died : August 5, 1986 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Banesh Hoffmann 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 statistics journey law 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 causality secret world 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 gas-stations details discovery No longer was light analogous to the discharge of a blunderbuss, but rather to the pulsating flight of birds. Banesh Hoffmann flight light bird Similar Authors Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch mathematician Brahmagupta mathematician Augustus De Morgan mathematician Augustin-Louis Cauchy mathematician Atle Selberg mathematician Arthur Cayley mathematician All Authors
