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xocet

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11. You are posting possible quotations so that others can verify them for you?
Fri Dec 28, 2012, 12:45 AM
Dec 2012

Can't you be bothered to look them up yourself or at least ask people if they have ever seen a citation for a particular potential quotation?

Here is what you do: start with the obvious book by A. Pais, find the citations you need if they are there, and post these citations (if you can find them) so that everyone knows that you are not posting misinformation. Then simply continue this process until you have found and revealed citations for all the supposed quotations that you have conjured out of nowhere and decided to post anyway.

Also, your OP ought to be self-deleted unless you can defend it: i.e., I would love see your citation for that god-awful piece of text and the original German from which it supposedly emanates - if you can be bothered to find it. Can you even begin to try to defend that quotation as anything other that balderdash? As it stands, it is your claim and, therefore, your burden of proof. Give me a valid citation to an original source, and I'll retract this paragraph.

If you cannot do the above, just post the quotation to a pseudo-science/fantasy group as a conjecture and ask others if they have ever seen a citation for the quotation.

Peace.

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Energy [View all] littlemissmartypants Dec 2012 OP
WTF? DavidDvorkin Dec 2012 #1
Omega Minimo. Occulus Dec 2012 #19
That's great! K&R Squinch Dec 2012 #2
I have no idea what it means but I love it. limpyhobbler Dec 2012 #3
So tama Dec 2012 #4
Tried looking that up. FiveGoodMen Dec 2012 #5
QI says: NoOneMan Dec 2012 #6
Thanks. FiveGoodMen Dec 2012 #7
Thanks for the link to Quote Investigator. nt eppur_se_muova Dec 2012 #17
I'm not surprised that it's a false quotation. DavidDvorkin Dec 2012 #20
I really doubt that's an actual Einstein quote. (nt) Posteritatis Dec 2012 #8
The trouble with quotes on the internet... progressoid Dec 2012 #12
Exactly. Everyone knows Herodotus said that. (nt) Posteritatis Dec 2012 #13
Why post this in the science group? Are you a crank? n/t xocet Dec 2012 #9
Thanks guys littlemissmartypants Dec 2012 #10
You are posting possible quotations so that others can verify them for you? xocet Dec 2012 #11
"Raffiniert ist Der Herrgott, aber boshaft ist er nicht." eppur_se_muova Dec 2012 #16
It appears, littlemissmartypants Dec 2012 #14
You must have missed the sort of things that are posted in this group.... xocet Dec 2012 #15
Sounds extremely dodgy, but I'm leaving the thread open. eppur_se_muova Dec 2012 #18
You are quite correct about asking questions.... xocet Dec 2012 #21
The stench increases Occulus Dec 2012 #22
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