Columbus and the egg. Christopher Columbus replying to his critics, who suggested that his voyage to the New World was simple and easily done by others, that it was only easy now that he had shown how it was done. In order to illustrate that simple plans were always the best plans, he challenged them to stand an egg upright. They all failed. He then tapped the egg on the table to flatten its tip and it remained upright exemplifying it's simplicity and revealing his genius.
Columbus and the egg. Christopher Columbus replying to his critics, who suggested that his voyage to the New World was simple and easily done by others, that it was only easy now that he had shown how it was done. In order to illustrate that simple plans were always the best plans, he challenged them to stand an egg upright. They all failed. He then tapped the egg on the table to flatten its tip and it remained upright exemplifying it's simplicity and revealing his genius. From The History of Our Country, published 1899.
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