xamdam comments on Open Thread: February 2010, part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: xamdam 17 February 2010 08:49:44PM 19 points [-]

No! Not for a second! I immediately began to think how this could have happened. And I realized that the clock was old and was always breaking. That the clock probably stopped some time before and the nurse coming in to the room to record the time of death would have looked at the clock and jotted down the time from that. I never made any supernatural connection, not even for a second. I just wanted to figure out how it happened.

-- Richard P Feynman, on being asked if he thought that the fact that his wife's favorite clock had stopped the moment she died was a supernatural occurrence, quoted from Al Sekel, "The Supernatural Clock"

Comment author: RichardKennaway 18 February 2010 12:04:25AM 2 points [-]

This should be copied to the Rationality Quotes thread.