BaalChatzaf Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 Ba'al:I think the statement is correct and as long as the fatal proof was replicatable, damn near irrefutable.AdamPost Script:I ran the quote and most of the places only attributed it to Einstein. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 Einstein was a brilliant man. God doesn't play dice with the universe, but he sometimes sits in for a game of blackjack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaalChatzaf Posted October 18, 2009 Author Share Posted October 18, 2009 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.Ba'al Chatzaf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjohnson Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 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 ChatzafOn a related note, we learn more from our failures than we do from our successes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonrobt Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 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 ChatzafOn a related note, we learn more from our failures than we do from our successes.that last was Edison... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjohnson Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 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 andfor his fight to wring significant facts from an inflexible Nature, who says so distinctly “No” and soindistinctly “Yes” to our theories. (550) HERMANN WEYL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaalChatzaf Posted October 22, 2009 Author Share Posted October 22, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Biggers Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 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 ChatzafI don't know who said that particular quote, but it sounds like Karl Popper's "principle of falsifiability." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjohnson Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaalChatzaf Posted October 22, 2009 Author Share Posted October 22, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 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 ChatzafHave you read Einstein's essay in support of socialism? It isn't long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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