Quoting G=F6khan SEVER <gstr2005@gmail.com>:

> Just wondering, Is the title of this posting common in English?
>
> or have you been influenced by a book or something?
>
> like Walter Isaacson's - Einstein His Life and Universe
>
> Just has caught this on the audio file: Bohr was able hoist Einstein by h=
is
> own petard.
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petard

     For 'tis the sport to have the enginer
     Hoist with his own petard;

Note also the reference to the Bard's off-color joke-- the amusing
image of the engineer hoisted into the air with his own flatulence--
an ever-present danger with older practitioners of the Art.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
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