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I thought it was Fermi??
joe
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Herbert H Gottlieb wrote:
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 22:52:49 -0600 Jim Green <JMGreen@SISNA.COM> writes:
> Herb, who was it who said something like "If I could remember the
> names of all the various particles, I would have been a botanist."
>
I think that it was the same fellow who used to play the bongo drums for
relaxation; Richard Feynman. He had the kind of humor that would be in
keeping with such a statement.
Herb Gottlieb from New York City
(where Richard Feynman first learned his science in our public schools)
> >On the other hand .......
> >I have no statistics to prove my contention but it has been my
> personal
> >experience that many of my former students, on the school honor
> rolls
> >with exceptionally high grades in High School Biology, have had a
> great
> >deal of trouble achieving equally high grades in our high school
> physics
> >courses. I assumed that courses such as the high school Biology
> require
> >a great deal of memorization of seemingly unrelated topics together
> with
> >test and examinations that mostly test the ability of recall.
> >Perhaps I am the only one on this list-serv with such
> experiences.... but
> >I wonder if anyone else here has had similar experiences.
>
>
> Jim Green
> mailto:JMGreen@sisna.com
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