A friend was visiting in the home of Nobel Prize winner Niels Bohr, the famous atom scientist. As they were talking, the friend kept glancing at a horseshoe hanging over the door. Finally, unable to contain his curiosity any longer, he demanded: ‘Niels, it can’t possibly be that you, a brilliant scientist, believe that foolish horseshoe superstition?!’ ‘Of course not’, replied the scientist. ‘But I understand it’s lucky whether you believe in it or not.’
