William T Goodall wrote:
>
> On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 12:49 am, Erik Reuter wrote:
>
> > Anyway, this is the mistake of using the evidence that suggested a
> > theory to support the theory. To demonstrate this type of error,
> > Richard
> > Feynmann once walked into the lecture hall and said something like:
> >
> > The most amazing thing happened to me on the way to lecture. I passed
> > a car and the license plate was WZ3726!!! Can you imagine? Out of all
> > the millions of permutations, I saw that particular one! The odds
> > are
> > incredible!
>
> I haven't read 'The Blind Watchmaker' for many years, but that story
> might be in it...
If not, I'm pretty sure it's in _Genius_ by James Gleick. If it's not
there, then it must be in _"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynmann!"_. I
read both of those in the past 18 months, and it's in one of them.
Julia
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