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Piet Hein

I lived from 1905-1996. I was from Denmark.

He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He studied at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of Copenhagen (later to become the Niels Bohr Institute), and Technical University of Denmark. Yale awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1972. He died in his home on Funen, Denmark in 1996.
He was a direct descendant of Piet Hein, the Dutch naval hero of the 16th century

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  • The Road to Wisdom
    The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain
    And simple to express:
    8 lines
  • Atomyriades
    Nature, it seems is the popular name
    for milliards and milliards and milliards
    4 lines, 1 comment
  • A Psychological Tip
    Whenever you're called on to make up your mind,
    and you're hampered by not having any,
    8 lines
  • T.T.T.
    Put up in a place
    where it's easy to see
    8 lines
  • Those Who Know
    Those who always
    know what’s best
    4 lines, 1 comment
  • Out of Time
    My old clock used to tell the time
    and subdivide diurnity;
    4 lines
  • The Egocentrics
    People are self-centred
    to a nauseous degree.
    4 lines
  • Problems
    Problems worthy
    of attack
    4 lines, 1 comment
  • Prayer
    Sun that givest all things birth
    Shine on everything on earth!
    6 lines
  • What Love Is Like
    Love is like
    a pineapple,
    4 lines
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