"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."

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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

Banesh Hoffmann

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“The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.”
“Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.”

Source : "Noble obliges". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2006.
“I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.”
“...there has to be someone who is willing to do it, who is willing to take whatever risks are required. I don't think it can be done with money alone. The person has to be dedicated to the task. There has to be some other motivation.”
“I was born in the USA, which many people still find hard to believe.”
“If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men possessed of these other excellent qualities are chosen to fill the seats of government, we may expect that our affairs will rest on a solid and permanent foundation.”
“First of all, a player has to know what is banned and what is not banned.”
“I had risked everything, and I had nothing to show for it but my open hand, lying empty and palm up toward the ceiling.”

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