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Letter: That old bore

Published 17 August 2005

From Brian Clegg, Creativity Unleashed

Just to clarify the Neils Bohr remark in the review of Perfectly Reasonable Deviations on our site www.popularscience.co.uk (Feedback, 23 July), I suspect part of the reason “some old bore called” was unique in a Google search is that it was wrong. I put the quote in from memory, but in fact Mary Lou said that Richard Feynman had been invited to dinner with “some old bore” rather than that “some old bore called”.

I am still, however, impressed that we managed a unique hit on “some old bore called”, so I’ve left the quote in the review with a correction.

Upper Wanborough, Wiltshire, UK

Issue no. 2513 published 20 August 2005

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