4. ABSENCE OF MIND: Newton and the egg.
Always preoccupied with his profound researches, the great Newton showed in the ordinary affairs of life an absence of mind which has become proverbial. It is related that, one day, wishing to find the number of seconds necessary for the boiling of an egg, he perceived, after waiting a minute, that he held the egg in his hand, and had placed his seconds watch (an instrument of great value on account of its mathematical precision) to boil!
—FLAMMARION, Popular Astronomy, bk. ii, ch. 1, p. 93. (A.)
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