[forty]

"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself." - Albert Einstein (allegedly :))

I always thought that the quote was with "5 year old" and that it was the reason for ELI5 :)

[dingaling]

"An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid," Lord Rutherford of Nelson.

There should be some name for the phenonenom of assigning anything pithy to Einstein.

[bryanrasmussen]

I just find it interesting that Lord Rutherford thought the purpose of science was chatting up barmaids.

[ecshafer]

Isn't it?