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

Direction Journey Law Magnitude Parallelogram
No longer was light analogous to the discharge of a blunderbuss, but rather to the pulsating flight of birds.
BANESH HOFFMANN

Bird Flight Light
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

Details Discovery Gas Stations
But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction.
BANESH HOFFMANN

Journey Law Statistics
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

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