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JoshMilo
on Jan 30, 2015
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Cultivated Disinterest in Professional Sports
You must have forgotten that Niels Bohr was an olympic athlete as well as a nobel prize winner in physics.
psykotic
on Jan 31, 2015
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You're confusing the physicist Niels with his mathematician brother Harald. Niels did play soccer but never on the national team.
rational-future
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Yeah, never mind the 99.99% of Nobel winners that aren't/weren't athletes.
remarkEon
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The point was that being a tremendous athlete and an intellectual/scientist aren't mutually exclusive.
Edit: Also, astronauts.
So there's that.
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