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Thursday, January 7. 2010

QQQ

...my friend saw a leaf floating down from a tree in a peculiar swirling pattern. He then asked, "Dr. Einstein, why is the leaf falling from the tree like that rather than straight down?" Einstein replied with a smile, "I don't know."


Via a piece at Am Thinker by Lauri Regan. I find "I don't know" to be one of the most useful sentences in the English language.

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I find use of that phrase most endearing, so long as effort was made to think before assigning it as an appropriate answer (ref. a 5 year old being too lazy to try and answer it). I am a great respecter of knowledgeable professionals who use that phrase with a careful ease.
#1 Ohio gir; on 2010-01-07 12:50 (Reply)
The great G. K. Chesterton started a debating society which he named the IDK Club.

When asked what IDK stood for, he would reply, "I don't know."
#2 JJM on 2010-01-07 13:51 (Reply)
Boy, who wants to be a mathematician when he grows up, loved this story... said it was funnier than the Marx Brothers, whom he idolizes.

Thanks for the GKC IDK Club tidbit. I did not know that.
#3 The Distributist on 2010-01-07 18:05 (Reply)
"I like that, Mr. Spicoli: 'I don't know'" - Mr. Hand
#4 Eric Lindholm (Link) on 2010-01-07 22:03 (Reply)
I Don't Know.
#5 Leag on 2010-01-11 15:09 (Reply)

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