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11. Right

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Reply #7)

Fri Dec 16, 2016, 05:00 PM

Dec 2016

But if I were on a talk show and the subject turned to, say, particle physics, I'd clam up because I don't know anything about particle physics. That's what having intelligence and being able to apply it is all about. I might smile, shrug, and say something about Isaac Newton, but I sure wouldn't try to pretend to an expertise I don't have.

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