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<div><font face="Times" size="+1" color="#000000">In my previous post
I forgot to include this Philip Morrison quote:</font></div>
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"There is a kind of power over the theoretical and experimental
studies in which [the prospective physics graduate student] is engaged
which is difficult to define, but whose presence is perhaps more
important than the knowledge which is more formal and complete. There
is one test of such power which is at the same time a remarkably apt
method for its development. The method was the common and
frequently amusing practice of Enrico Fermi, perhaps the most widely
creative physicist of our times. Fermi delighted to think up and a
once to discuss and answer questions which drew upon everyday
experience, and upon the ability to make rough approximations,
inspired guesses, and statistical estimates from very little data.
A few samples are indispensable: How much does a watch gain or lose
when carried up a mountain? How many piano tuners are there in the
city of Chicago?"</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="+1"
color="#000000"> Philip Morrison
(1963)</font></div>
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REFERENCES [Tiny URL's courtesy
<http://tinyurl.com/create.php>.]<br>
Morrison, P. 1963. "Fermi Questions," Am. J. Phys. 31(8): 626-
627; online to subscribers at
<http://scitation.aip.org/dbt/dbt.jsp?KEY=AJPIAS&Volume=31<span
></span>&Issue=8>.</font></div>
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