Re: What clocks indicate

gharnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com> wrote:

J. J. Lodder wrote:

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The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

 
But it is not what you wrote. You wrote:
 
"Do you have a real source for Einstein ever having said
anything like this?
Beyond the internet forever repeating itself?"

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Pfft. Do read.
The quotation is correct, the source I found for it is correct,
and has nothing at all to do with Albert Einstein.
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It is a mis-attribution,
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Jan

 
Well, apparently it does have something to do with Einstein, a
character in a book referred to as Einstein.  But thanks for the
correction.  I'll put quotes around "Einstein" when I use that
quote in the future :-)

It seems that in some circles 'Einstein' is used
jocularly as a nickname for a supposedly smart person.
I have also seen 'Sheldon' used in a similar way.
(after the hero of the 'Big Bang Theory')

Ascribing anything said by such a person to the real historical Einstein
is not the right way of going about it.
Even 'ascribed to Einstein' is just plain wrong,

Jan