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Piet Hein

(December 16, 1905–April 17, 1996 / Copenhagen)

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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. more >>

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''The human spirit sublimates
the impulses it thwarts:
a healthy sex life mitigates
the lust for other sports.''

Piet Hein (b. 1905), Dutch inventor, poet. "Hint and Suggestion," Grooks (1966). Admonitory grook addressed to youth.

''They're busy making bigger roads,
and better roads and more,
so that people can discover
even faster than before
that everything is everywhere alike.''

Piet Hein (b. 1905), Dutch inventor, poet. Road Sense, in Grooks (1966).

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