#GopinathBordoloi

“A physics Reader in Dacca whom one British journal had just rejected mailed four pages to Einstein with a polite covering letter; Einstein translated them into German himself, and physics has spoken Bengali ever since — every time it says boson.”

“Photons cannot be told apart, so they must be counted differently — and counted his way, the light-formula physicists had been fudging for twenty-four years falls out perfectly. Every particle that obeys his counting is now called a boson: half of everything there is.”