Physicists use the wave theory on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and the particle theory on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays

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in David Dietz, The Story of Science, 4th ed. (1942) p. 250. Variant, in C. C. Gaither (ed.) Physically Speaking (1997): "On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays we teach the wave theory and on Tuesday, Thursdays and Saturdays the corpuscular theory."

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