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Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Nils Bohr: Physicist and Wise Guy

"Find the height of a building using a barometer"

Or, several examples of how the unexpected answer isn't necessarily wrong.

The source of this anecdote isn't given, but the story is crazy enough to be true.

Particularly since Nils Bohr would have had to have some imagination to win that Nobel Prize.

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