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• An American scientist once visited the offices of the great Nobel prize winning physicist, Niels Bohr, in Copenhagen.
  He was amazed to find that over Bohr's desk was a horseshoe, securely nailed to the wall, with the open end up in the approved manner (so it would catch the good luck and not let it spill out)....
• On a paper submitted by a physicist colleague: "This isn't right.
  This isn't even wrong." -- Wolfgang Pauli...
• This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.
  -- Wolfgang Pauli, on a paper submitted by a physicist colleague...
• Don't believe in superstition - it brings bad luck.
• Some people think a horseshoe's gonna bring 'em luck.
  A horseshoe is a lucky sign of course. For every set of horseshoes human beings use for luck....