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by dingaling 7 days ago
"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.

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I just find it interesting that Lord Rutherford thought the purpose of science was chatting up barmaids.
Isn't it?