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Einstein: "You know, Henri I once studied mathematics, but I gave it up for physics."

Poincare': "Oh, really Albert, why is that?"

Einstein: "Because although I could tell the true statements from the false, I just couldn't tell which facts were the important ones."

Poincare':"That is very interesting Albert, because I originally studied physics but left the field for Mathematics"

Einstein: "Really, why?"

Poincare':"Because I couldn't tell which of the important facts were true."

A conversation between Albert Einstein and Henri Poicare' reported by David Singmaster in Twenty Years Before the Blackboard" p95

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I orginally studied History but left that for Mathematics because I realized I didn't care at all which facts were the important ones, only that I had better than a 90% chance of knowing more facts than anyone else . . .

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Nice find oxsan.

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