Banesh Hoffmann - The Strange Story of the Quantum (1947)

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

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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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First we had the luminiferous ether. Then we had the electromagnetic ether. And now we haven't e(i)ther.

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No longer could an electron roam fancy free wherever it wished but, more like a trolley car than a bus, it must keep strictly to the tracks laid down by Bohr...

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They could but make the best of it, and went around with woebegone faces sadly complaining that on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays they must look on light as a wave; on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, as a particle. On Sundays they simply prayed.

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