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Re: Source of quotation?



On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Shapiro, Mark wrote:

Does anyone remember who it was that said something like:

"Your talk presented information that is both new and interesting. U=
nfortunately, what is interesting is not new, and what is new is not =
interesting."


Google search:

http://www.nctimes.net/~mark/htmjokes/newtales.htm
9.4 The famous theoretical physicist, Nobel prize winner Lev Landau, was
known for his sharp tongue and condescending attitude to people who were
below his intellectual level. Many physicists strived for presenting their
work at Landau's seminar. If Landau, to whom his numerous pupils usually
referred as Dau, liked the work, he would allow the applicant to give a
talk at his seminar. Otherwise he would destroy the hapless applicant's
hopes with a derisive comment. Once, upon leafing through a submitted
paper, he wrote, 'This work contains many things which are new and
interesting. Unfortunately, everything that is new is not interesting, and
everything which is interesting, is not new.'


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