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



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✵ 6. September 1906 – 5. August 1986
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Banesh Hoffmann Quotes

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

Banesh Hoffmann

[Banesh Hoffmann, The strange story of the quantum: an account for the general reader of the growth of the ideas underlying our present atomic knowledge, Courier Dover Publications, 1959, 0486205185, 7]

“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

[Banesh Hoffmann, The strange story of the quantum: an account for the general reader of the growth of the ideas underlying our present atomic knowledge, Courier Dover Publications, 1959, 0486205185, 4]

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