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
BANESH HOFFMANN
Banesh Hoffmann on causality
Banesh Hoffmann5 quotes“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.”
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