His Revenge

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Mr. Planck Was Not Convinced

At a Banquet

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After their discovery of radium and polonium Marie and Pierre Curie visited London. They were invited to a banquet organized in their honour by some very rich people. Marie looked at the ornaments of the ladies with great admiration. Suddenly, to her surprise, she saw that her husband was also looking at the brilliant diamonds with great interest.

At home Marie Curie asked her husband to explain his strange behaviour at the banquet.

"I had nothing to do," answered Pierre, "so I was trying to calculate how many laboratories could be built for the dia­monds that each lady had around her neck."

Max Planck (1858—1947), an outstanding German phys­icist was one of the founders of quantum theory. Once, when he was still young, he visited a seventy-year-old professor and told him that he wanted to study theoretical physics.

"Young man," said the professor, "why do you want to spoil your life? Theoretical physics is, in general,¹ complet­ed, and you cannot hope to find anything new in it. Is it worth while² to study a science in which you can expect no discoveries?"

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Once Einstein was asked: "How new inventions (hat change the face of the world are made?"

"Quite simply," answered Einstein. "Everybody knows that something is impossible. Then quite by chance ' there happens² an ignorant man who does not know it and he makes an invention."

1. by chance — случайно

2. there happens — зд. появляется

Niels Bohr,¹ the famous Danish physicist, discovered many important laws concerning the structure of atomic nucleus. He always worked hard. But once it so happened that he had not prepared for his seminar at the university. His report was very bad and the teacher was surprised.

Bohr, however, did not lose the presence of mind² and fin­ishing his report said in conclusion:

"I have listened here to so many bad reports that I ask you to regard this one as my revenge."³

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