" I have brought a frog," said the professor of zoology beaming at his class, 'fresh from the pond, in order that we might study its outer appearance and later dissect it.'He carefully unwrapped the package he carried and inside was a neatly prepared ham sandwich. The good professor looked at it with astonishment.
'Odd!' he said, 'I distinctly remember having eaten my lunch.
In scientific work, in scientific research, in the science lab, you need concentration. You have to concentrate on one problem and exclude everything else -- so much so that you almost become unmindful of the remaining world. The only problem that you are concentrating upon is your world.
That's why scientists become absent-minded. People who concentrate too much always become absent-minded because they don't know how to remain open to the whole world.
