A quote attributed to Albert Einstein


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A quote attributed to Albert Einstein: No number of experiments will prove me right. One experiment can prove me wrong.

Does anyone happen to know the source of this quote?

By the way, whoever said it, he is correct.

Ba'al Chatzaf

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This is a science 101 quote, so I have a feeling somebody only attributed this to Einstein to get the point across. It might be him because it is a wise quote. However, weren't most of Einstein's quotes less from a scientist and more from a theorist POV... I recall most of his quotables to be more aesthetic.

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Ba'al:

I think the statement is correct and as long as the fatal proof was replicatable, damn near irrefutable.

Adam

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I ran the quote and most of the places only attributed it to Einstein.

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Einstein was a brilliant man.

God doesn't play dice with the universe, but he sometimes sits in for a game of blackjack.

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Post Script:

I ran the quote and most of the places only attributed it to Einstein.

I did the same, but was unable to come up with the source of the quote, hence the question I asked.

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A quote attributed to Albert Einstein: No number of experiments will prove me right. One experiment can prove me wrong.

Does anyone happen to know the source of this quote?

By the way, whoever said it, he is correct.

Ba'al Chatzaf

On a related note, we learn more from our failures than we do from our successes.

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A quote attributed to Albert Einstein: No number of experiments will prove me right. One experiment can prove me wrong.

Does anyone happen to know the source of this quote?

By the way, whoever said it, he is correct.

Ba'al Chatzaf

On a related note, we learn more from our failures than we do from our successes.

that last was Edison...

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It's a common theme in science.

Allow me to express now, once and for all, my deep respect for the work of the experimenter and

for his fight to wring significant facts from an inflexible Nature, who says so distinctly “No” and so

indistinctly “Yes” to our theories. (550) HERMANN WEYL

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Good quote, although most of the quotes attributed to him are abominable, and having skimmed his essay on why he supports socialism, I am not given to thinking that he is a particularly lucid thinker when it comes to politics, either.

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Good quote, although most of the quotes attributed to him are abominable, and having skimmed his essay on why he supports socialism, I am not given to thinking that he is a particularly lucid thinker when it comes to politics, either.

Weyl's forte was mathematics. In this he was one of the best.

He also invented the gauge concept in physics (Eichinvariantz).

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A quote attributed to Albert Einstein: No number of experiments will prove me right. One experiment can prove me wrong.

Does anyone happen to know the source of this quote?

By the way, whoever said it, he is correct.

Ba'al Chatzaf

I don't know who said that particular quote, but it sounds like Karl Popper's "principle of falsifiability."

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I don't know who said that particular quote, but it sounds like Karl Popper's "principle of falsifiability."

Well, Popper's principle states that a statement cannot be scientific if it is not falsifiable but the above principles relate more to the fact that we never know ALL there is to know about a given phenomena. The idea is somewhat like the process of elimination. When you are trouble shooting some process and you eliminate causes then you gradually zero in on the problem. For example, scientists at one time that the speed of light could change relative to the observer and devised experiments to show this. In every case they found the same velocity was measured and so they knew for sure this theory was incorrect (structurally not similar). Then the problem became explaining how this was possible and integrating this into existing theories. So it is a fundamental epistemological principle that negative propositions carry much more weight than positive propositions.

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Good quote, although most of the quotes attributed to him are abominable, and having skimmed his essay on why he supports socialism, I am not given to thinking that he is a particularly lucid thinker when it comes to politics, either.

Weyl's forte was mathematics. In this he was one of the best.

He also invented the gauge concept in physics (Eichinvariantz).

Ba'al Chatzaf

Sorry, I was actually referring to Einstein there.

Weyl was a socialist too?

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Weyl was a socialist too?

I know of no reason for thinking so.

As to Einstein he was no more of a socialist than many European intellectuals were at the time (end of 19-th and early 20-th century). Also his disgust with German nationalism made perfectly good sense. He was opposed to Germany taken military actions after the assassination of Franz Josef in Sarajevo.

The Great War was utter and unnecessary madness and Einstein was right in opposing it.

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Weyl was a socialist too?

I know of no reason for thinking so.

As to Einstein he was no more of a socialist than many European intellectuals were at the time (end of 19-th and early 20-th century). Also his disgust with German nationalism made perfectly good sense. He was opposed to Germany taken military actions after the assassination of Franz Josef in Sarajevo.

The Great War was utter and unnecessary madness and Einstein was right in opposing it.

Ba'al Chatzaf

Have you read Einstein's essay in support of socialism? It isn't long.

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