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Britannia Pub
1:23 Tue Feb 28
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Sheldon Cooper SWT
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gph
11:49 Mon Feb 27
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So clever that his famous Delta function isn't actually a function.
Almost eveyone else with a famous function has one which IS a function.
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Any Old Iron
11:07 Mon Feb 27
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Going to see The Blockheads in July at a little local festival in my Somerset town. No, not Glasto.
I just hope they have a good frontman on the night.
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JimmyT
10:56 Mon Feb 27
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Dirac was notoriously precise about his lectures. Victor Weisskopf used to tell the famous joke about Dirac’s answering questions after he’d given a lecture. One student said, “I don’t understand that second equation, Professor Dirac.” Dirac remained silent. “Aren’t you going to answer the question?” asked Weisskopf. “That was not a question, that was a statement,” said Dirac.
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Claret Badger
10:04 Mon Feb 27
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ah Segovia
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Far Cough
7:35 Mon Feb 27
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A story told of Dirac is that when he first met the young Richard Feynman who was a genius in his own right, at a conference, he said after a long silence, "I have an equation. Do you have one too?"
Yes, Dirac was on a different level to most of his peers.
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easthammer
7:21 Mon Feb 27
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I think this begs for a definition of clever.
Most dictionary definitions link clever with intelligence.
Dirac was undoubtedly a genius (as measured conventionally) he apparently had an IQ somewhere around 190, I believe, but he was autistic. And when asked how he found his famous equation he said "I didn't talk to anyone"
But there are other forms of intelligence/cleverness, I would guess he might not have scored so high on divergent thinking.
But as you say by conventional measures Clever Bastard given Einstein's IQ was said to have been only 160!
For info 210 is the highest recorded - Kim Ung-yong
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Noah
5:35 Mon Feb 27
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Einstein can't be classed as witless
He claimed atoms were the littlest
When you did a bit of splitting-em-ness
Frighten everybody shitless
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Son of Sam
4:56 Mon Feb 27
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Michael Levin
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zebthecat
10:58 Sun Feb 26
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George Boole
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Sydney_Iron
10:56 Sun Feb 26
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Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders.......
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