Showing posts with label Intelligence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Intelligence. Show all posts

Saturday, July 25, 2015

God Loves Innocence not intelligence



I remember an incident from my school. During a biology period, we had to view a slide in the microscope. When my turn came to see the slide, the slide was moved already by some one however nobody told the teacher.
I saw that slide was moved and out of sheer innocence, I told the teacher. She blasted me and slapped me. Everyone knew who had moved the slide, but nobody told the teacher. I was too innocent to even know who did it.
I cried that day! Yes, I did. So why am I writing this now.
The reason being I was neither famous nor very intelligent but whoever was around me or with me loved me.
I was not smart, intelligent, funny, fighter, strong. I was not even good at sports.
The reason they liked me was because I was innocent. In spite of that slap from the teacher, my friends loved me. They loved the innocence in me.
I have been observing through my life that god loves innocence. God does not love intelligence, God loves purity.
Ever seen very rich people, they are not very intelligent. They are innocent. They became rich when they were innocent.
Innocence is important. Innocence has no rules or boundaries and has no definition too.
Innocence is feeling that you carry with yourself. Innocence does not mean you do not know anything. Innocence means you don't mince with your words. You mean what you say.
Its a sad reality that over time, one tends to loose innocence.
Be innocent and God will love you!!

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer


AFTER EINSTEIN IT IS NEILS BOHR: The following concerns a question in a physics degree exam at the University of Copenhagen.
"Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer."
One student replied:
"Tie a long piece of string to the neck of the barometer, then lower the barometer from the roof of the skyscraper to the ground. The length of the string plus the length of the barometer will equal the height of the building."
This highly original answer so incensed the examiner that the student was failed. The student appealed on the grounds that his answer was indisputably correct, and the university appointed an independent arbitrator to decide the case. She judged that the answer was indeed correct, but was inappropriate to the problem. It was decided to call the student in and allow him six minutes in which to provide a verbal answer which showed at least a minimal familiarity with the concepts under question.
"If you merely wanted to be boring and orthodox about it, of course you could use the barometer to measure the air pressure on the roof of the skyscraper and on the ground, and convert the difference in millibars into feet to give the height of the building."
"But since we are constantly being exhorted to exercise independence of mind and apply scientific methods, undoubtedly the best way would be to knock on the janitor's door and say to him, 'If you would like a nice new barometer, I will give you this one if you tell me the height of this skyscraper'."
The student was Niels Bohr, the only person from Denmark to win the Nobel prize for Physics.