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- Albert Einstein knew more than just a little science. He is credited with saying: " The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
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Apr 7, 2017 · A new book investigates the truth behind famous quotations that have been wrongly attributed, misremembered, garbled in translation—or are flat-out fake.
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Beyond his towering contribution to physics, Albert Einstein was an avid commentator on education, marriage, money, the nature of genius, music-making, politics and more. His insights were legion, as we are reminded by this month’s publication of volume 15 in The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Even the website of the US Internal Revenue Service enshrines his words (as quoted by his accountant): “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”
“There appears to be a bottomless pit of quotable gems to be mined from Einstein’s enormous archives,” notes Alice Calaprice, editor of The Ultimate Quotable Einstein (2011); one detects a hint of despair. Indeed, Einstein might be the most quoted scientist in history. The website Wikiquote has many more entries for him than for Aristotle, Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin or Stephen Hawking, and even than Einstein’s opinionated contemporaries Winston Churchill and George Bernard Shaw.
But how much of this superabundance actually emanated from the physicist? Take this: “Astrology is a science in itself and contains an illuminating body of knowledge. It taught me many things and I am greatly indebted to it.” These lines, displayed by some astrology websites as Einstein’s, were exposed as an obvious hoax by the magazine Skeptical Inquirer in 2007. The real source was the foreword to a reissued book, Manuel d’astrologie (1965), first published by Swiss-Canadian astrologer Werner Hirsig in 1950. Einstein’s only known comment on astrology is in a 1943 letter to one Eugene Simon:
“I fully agree with you concerning the pseudo-science of astrology. The interesting point is that this kind of superstition is so tenacious that it could persist through so many centuries.”
Among the hundreds of quotes that Calaprice notes are misattributed to Einstein are many that are subtly debatable. Some are edited or paraphrased to sharpen or neaten the original. “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler” might, says Calaprice, be a compressed version of lines from a 1933 lecture by Einstein: “It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.” More certain is the provenance of “The most incomprehensible thing about the Universe is that it is comprehensible”. That rewords a passage in a 1936 article in the Journal of the Franklin Institute: “The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility … The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle.”
- Andrew Robinson
- 2018
Sep 30, 2023 · Crucially, however, Einstein was not writing about something that would happen in the future, but what was happening in 1949. That's a key detail the various paraphrases were...
Mar 11, 2023 · Thanks to the internet, Albert Einstein, the renowned 20th-century physicist and originator of the Theory of Relativity, is also famous for saying things he did not, in fact, ever say. That's not...
Jul 28, 2022 · Albert Einstein: the endearing German physicist that, even years after his death, still moves the world. He was a genius teeming with humanity. In fact, he’s so widely admired that, along with quotes that are correctly attributed to his name, come a few that aren’t as accurately placed.
Jun 26, 2019 · There is no evidence that Einstein ever said this. Einstein famously developed the theory of special relativity, which suggests that objects can approach but not exceed the speed of light. His theory of general relativity, put forward in 1915, dealt with gravity and the distortion of space-time.
