‘A map of the cat, sir?’ she asked, horrified. ‘You mean a zoological chart!’ From then on there were rumors about some dumb biology graduate student who was looking for a ‘map of the cat.’ When it came time for me to give my talk on the subject, I started off by drawing an outline of the cat and began to name the various muscles. The other students in the class interrupt me: ‘We know all that!’ ‘Oh,’ I say, ‘you do? Then no wonder I can catch up with you so fast after you’ve had four years of biology.’ They had wasted all their time memorizing stuff like that, when it could be looked up in
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