[HN Gopher] Did Einstein say that? (2018)
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Did Einstein say that? (2018)
Author : 2517AD
Score : 48 points
Date : 2022-07-20 05:34 UTC (2 days ago)
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| loloquwowndueo wrote:
| "Use the force, Harry" - Gandalf
|
| Works great when overlaid over a picture of Patrick Stewart ;)
| [deleted]
| mtlmtlmtlmtl wrote:
| Patrick Stewart, in a wheelchair(X-men), wearing his Starfleet
| uniform.
| deltasevennine wrote:
| "I did not say this quote." -- Albert Einstein
| infogulch wrote:
| My favorite:
|
| > Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not
| simpler.
|
| https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/05/13/einstein-simple/
| [deleted]
| dundarious wrote:
| I saw a quotation purporting to be from Einstein, railing against
| the income tax, used in a hard libertarian documentary. I wish I
| could find it now.
| sprak wrote:
| It is surprising to me that the quote: "The definition of
| insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting
| different results." is from 1983 and not from Einstein. It fits
| so well as a (misguided) critique of quantum physics. The double
| slits experiment is indeed to do the same thing again and again,
| expecting different results.
| n4r9 wrote:
| This has actually been traced back further to narcotics
| anonymous literature from 1981: http://www.nauca.us/wp-
| content/uploads/2015/04/1981-11-Basic... .
|
| It's likely that Rita Mae Brown was paraphrasing the literature
| in her novel.
|
| End of p.11, para.5.
| alehlopeh wrote:
| That isn't the definition of insanity though. Just check any
| dictionary.
| donarb wrote:
| "Don't believe everything you read on the internet." -- Abraham
| Lincoln
| [deleted]
| BurningFrog wrote:
| I guess attributing a nice quote to a respected person makes it a
| little extra viral, and so it can outcompete the correctly
| attributed version.
|
| I will always be sad this one is wrong: "Some
| ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them"
| --- George Orwell
| [deleted]
| ModernMech wrote:
| The one about insanity always struck me as something Einstein
| wouldn't have said. On its face, it would seem to imply that
| stochastic processes (system evolves according to a series of
| random events) and chaotic systems (slight changes in initial
| conditions can result in very different outcomes) don't exist.
| Those ideas definitely predate Einstein. I mean, Boltzmann was
| Austrian and was known by Einstein. Half of my physics undergrad
| was thermo, and one of the major things we learned there was how
| much of our understanding in that domain is based entirely on
| statistics. As for chaotic systems, I think Ian Malcolm proved
| that point simply in Jurassic Park, and he's certainly no
| Einstein.
| kjander79 wrote:
| Chaotic systems, at least, were not known to Einstein. They
| weren't described until after his death, from Lorenz' computer
| simulations. Earlier hints of the theory were there, but no one
| took them seriously. Ian Malcolm, though, is a solid authority.
| makeitdouble wrote:
| People making Einstein say whatever they actually want to say
| looks pretty close to /r/adviceanimals memes, or just memes in
| general.
|
| In that respect, what he actually said and didn't has become
| mostly irrelevant Imho.
| edent wrote:
| People don't care.
|
| I've tracked down several popular quotes attributed to
| influential figures. All of them false.
|
| And when you tell the people who are spreading them, they're just
| not interested. It's much more fun to believe Einstein agreed
| with you. Or that he was bad at maths, just like you. Or that he
| played electric guitar like a dude.
|
| And, a few people will double-down. Just because you can't find a
| source, doesn't mean he didn't say it. Or think it. Or tell it to
| me in a dream.
|
| For those of us who care about accuracy, we struggle with the
| knowledge that a lie is half-way around the world before the
| truth has put its boots on. Well, that's what Mark Twain thought
| anyway.
|
| Sources:
|
| Einstein - https://twitter.com/edent/status/854700205463261184
|
| Feynman - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/04/who-do-you-think-you-
| are-ki...
|
| Tutu - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/06/whats-the-origin-of-the-
| phr...
|
| Tesla - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/07/did-nikola-tesla-
| receive-no...
| [deleted]
| pomian wrote:
| However, there is a great movie out there, that proves he not
| only was a great guitar player, but also invented roll and
| rock! It's called "Young Einstein". It's a great movie.
| (Comedy?)
| BurningFrog wrote:
| It really is a fantastic, one-of-a-kind Australian movie!
| Agamus wrote:
| You're right, people don't care. Surely, we're at a point where
| more well-loved quotes are represented creatively in some way
| than not? That has been my recent experience.
|
| I had a friend who corrected a celebrated Ivy League professor
| on a quote that appeared at the top of the syllabus of seminal
| class that was a requirement for all students for decades. That
| was almost 20 years ago, and the quote is still used. I don't
| think I'll ever get over that one.
| abecedarius wrote:
| I've had the same experience of commenting with a correction
| and being completely ignored. I mostly gave up.
| wolfi1 wrote:
| if you assume that a quote attributed to Einstein is not his, you
| are almost always right
| simiones wrote:
| -- Albert Einstein
| mauvehaus wrote:
| "Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity,
| and I'm not so sure about the universe."
|
| --Albert Einstein
| [deleted]
| jwilk wrote:
| https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/04/universe-einstein/
| swayvil wrote:
| There is a class who builds entire worlds upon quotationly
| foundations (yes, even if it's an esoteric subject). The
| authoritative script is everything.
|
| I've seen it in religion and academics.
|
| Of course in software, where the word is literally made flesh,
| this makes perfectly good sense.
| its_bbq wrote:
| Related: fakebuddhaquotes.com
| ithkuil wrote:
| "I never said half the crap people said I did." -- Albert
| Einstein
| tcmart14 wrote:
| "Haha, thats sick bro, now watch me do a keg stand!" -- Albert
| Einstein
| [deleted]
| liberia wrote:
| https://cdn.geckoandfly.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/fake-...
| noSyncCloud wrote:
| Chilling that he was able to anticipate the invention of the
| internet like that. What a genius!
| wrycoder wrote:
| I still have a screen cap of my Twitter feed when he posted
| that.
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