<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Thank you, Edith, and to continue along these lines, this is from the science quiz (apologies for the four-letter word) in last week's Observer or Guardian -- the newspaper (whichever) that not so long ago reported the non-existence of universal grammar, beating <a href="http://Edge.org">Edge.org</a> to it. <div><br></div><div><h2 style="font-family: LucidaGrande;">True or false:</h2><h2 style="font-family: LucidaGrande;">5. Ni[e]ls Bohr – the father of sub-atomic physics and a true genius of the 20th century and possibly the brainiest man ever to walk the planet – used to be a professional footballer.</h2><div style="font-family: LucidaGrande;"><br></div><div style="font-family: LucidaGrande;">Here's the answer about Niels, if you're really interested in the truth of the matter:</div><div style="font-family: LucidaGrande;"><br></div><div style="font-family: LucidaGrande;"><p style="font-size: 10px;">True. He used to play in goal for the Danish side Akademisk Boldklub, and his brother played in mid-field (was so good in fact he played for Denmark). Everybody in Denmark loved Ni[e]ls, he was brainy, personable, an all round super star and national hero. So much so the Danish brewer Carlsberg built him a house and gifted him a lifetime supply of free beer. Hic.</p><p style="font-size: 10px;">If it weren't for him, Uncle Al would never have been able to build the Boldklub Accelerator which reduces the size of atoms.</p><p style="font-size: 10px;">Other notable if unlikely professional goalkeepers include Albert Camus (French existential novelist), Pope John-Paul 2nd (last Pope but one), Arthur Conan Doyle (creator of Sherlock Holmes) and Che Guevara (Cuban revolutionary).</p></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>And here's no universal grammar:</div><div><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/mar/25/daniel-everett-human-language-piraha">http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/mar/25/daniel-everett-human-language-piraha</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Calm down everybody. </div><div>Frans</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br>
<br><div><div>On 11 Mar 2014, at 15:09, Edith A Moravcsik <<a href="mailto:edith@uwm.edu">edith@uwm.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Danish physicist Niels Bohr said: "It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns only what we can SAY about nature." (emphasis original)<br><br><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>