The new quotable Einstein
by Albert Einstein · first published 2005
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…an idea I share about the importance of creativity, seems never to be traced to one of Einstein's actual writings. Has anyone ever checked the latest edition of Quotable Einstein http://www.amazon.com/New-Quotable-Einstein-Alice-Calaprice/... (I have checked the preceding edition) http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Einstein-Albert/dp/0691026963... to see if that is a genuine Einstein quotation? In the English-speaking world,…
on “What Is Intelligence, Anyway?” ↗From Wikiquote: Interview with Alfred Werner, Liberal Judaism 16 (April-May 1949), Einstein Archive 30-1104, as sourced in The New Quotable Einstein by Alice Calaprice (2005), p. 173 Differing versions of such a statement are attributed to conversations as early as 1948 (e.g. The Rotarian, 72 (6), June 1948, p. 9: "I don't know. But I can tell you…
on “China Will Resurrect the World's Largest Plane” ↗…23 June article was reprinted in Einstein on Peace by Otto Nathan and Heinz Norden (1960), and it was also reprinted in Einstein on Politics by David E. Rowe and Robert Schulmann (2007), p. 383. In The New Quotable Einstein (2005), editor Alice Calaprice suggests that two quotes attributed to Einstein which she could not find sources for, "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we…
on “Justapedia, a Wikipedia alternative and aspiring replacement, has gone public” ↗