Re: Snake Oil

["Van E. Neie" <ven@PHYSICS.PURDUE.EDU>]

Howard Voss wrote:

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> Friends:
> I like the following story I heard or read (MAYBE in Tony French's book on
> Bohr) about N. Bohr.  If it's not true, it should be -- about someone.
>
> A graduate student, having been invited to the Bohr home for dinner was
> startled to see a horse shoe nailed above the door.  Said the student:
> 'Professor Bohr, surely you don't believe in that good luck superstition.'
> To which Bohr replied, 'No, I don't, but I understand that it works even if
> you don't believe in it.'
>
> Howard Voss

Howard, my guess is that it is one of those legendary stories, because I heard it as a comment from Ben Franklin!  But I agree--if it didn't happen that way, it should have.


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