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squaresinger@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days ago

Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice.

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Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice.

squaresinger@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days ago
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Take that (not) Einstein!

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    “There is no substantive evidence that Einstein wrote or spoke the statement above. It is listed within a section called “Misattributed to Einstein” in the comprehensive reference “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein” from Princeton University Press.”

    So No. I also was always very irritated by this quote, because from a scientific point of view this is rather incorrect, as (like you said) experiments need to be repeated, to verify the results.

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