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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
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Banesh Hoffmann
Age: 79 †
Born: 1906
Born: September 6
Died: 1986
Died: August 5
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Richmond
North Yorkshire
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