Einstein wrote that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. That said, is it crazier to repeatedly throw yourself against a window, or to repeatedly open that window, believing the creatures that are throwing themselves against it might come into your house, take a look around, and leave with no hard feelings?
David SedarisTags: paraphrasing-narcotics-anonymous misattributed-to-einstein
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Robert J. HanlonTags: misattributed-mark-twain evil stupidity misattributed-to-einstein malice misattributed-robert-a-heinlein
Not everything that can be counted counts.
Not everything that counts can be counted.
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If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
Maurice MaeterlinckTags: science paraphrased environment ecology misattributed-to-einstein bees
The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.
Albert EinsteinTags: misattributed-to-einstein
Do you know what Albert Einstein's definition of insanity was?"
"No."
"Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
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Einstein’s remark on the limitlessness of human stupidity is made even more disturbing by the discovery that infinity comes in different sizes. Answering ‘How much stupider?’ or trying to measure the minimal idiocy bounded by an IQ test are mysteries which are themselves infinitely less alarming than simply attempting to tally the anti-savant population. One can count all the natural idiots (they’re the same as the even number of idiots – twice as many), but the number of real idiots continues forever: all the counting idiots (finger reckoners) plus all the fractional idiots (geniuses on a bad day) plus all the irrational idiots (they go on and on and on) add up to a world in which the approaching upper limit of our set of natural resources has its complement in the inexhaustible lower limit of our set of mental ones.
BauvardTags: einstein infinity misattributed-to-einstein numbers
One of the better definitions of insanity - doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different.
Anthony KiedisTags: insanity paraphrasing-narcotics-anonymous misattributed-to-einstein
If I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist.
Enrico FermiTags: misattributed-to-einstein
Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.
Darryl AnkaTags: misattributed-to-einstein
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