Re: I would have been a botanist

["Shapiro, Mark" <mshapiro@EXCHANGE.FULLERTON.EDU>]

        The following source lists the quote as being from Fermi:


http://www.cyber-nation.com/victory/quotations/authors/quotes_fermi_enrico.h
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Mark
http://www.IrascibleProfesor.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Hugh Haskell [mailto:hhaskell@MINDSPRING.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 9:36 AM
To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
Subject: Re: I would have been a botanist


My first response was from memory, without looking it up. Since there
seems to be some doubt, I checked my quotes files. according to them
it was Fermi, but in a conversion from an old computer to a new one
some years back a disk error cost me all my source references at the
time, so I can give no source for the citation, but it looks pretty
much like Fermi.

Hugh

> 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
> >  > http://users.sisna.com/jmgreen

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