wow. How did you people got these high results. I got 3, one of which (q. 6) was educated guess.
1 - Impossible to guess. All pre 19th century scientists were admirers of the laws in nature. I would never expect Kepler or Cabeus to say that. I thought maybe Ferma somehow (he was an atheist), but was 90% sure it was Wheeler. Wrong
3 - Knew it was not Descartes, but didn't expect it to be Galileo
5 - Knew it couldn't be Feynman nor Curie (must be someone who was alive when computers made a boom), and really looked more something that Hawking would say than Sagan (as epenguin remarked based on banality of the expression) and a certain dose of humour characteristic to Hawking. Wrong
6 - Impossible to miss in my opinion. I mean, would a real scientist say something like this? :)
7 - Something really archaically sounding, so I chose the oldest, Maxwell. But wrong, it was the youngest, Hawking.
And so on, each question until 11, would eliminate at least one, but all wrong.
11 - “In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite.” - I've heard this one before, and I liked it very much. Something that actually a poet would say. But I couldn't remember who sad it. I knew it was neither Tesla nor Born. (For people who don't know Tesla exquisitely well, this is a red herring, as he is known to have liked poetry and has translated some of the Serbian Poems into English) I thought of Dirac's social awkwardness and autism, vs Pauli's love for night life and shady bars and decided it should be Pauli. Wrong
12 - Again, the right answer, Feynman is known to have had many interests other then the physics. He traveled a lot and socialised with great variety of people. He practised art and made and sold some nice paintings, played bongos and was in a samba marching band, and is the author of three books. How likely is that he would have sad that "a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.”? But he did.
Greg, when are you going to make some easier quiz? Something like "Who sad "Alea Jacta Est" ", or "To be or not to be". :)
) and guessed Feynman.
