Re: Einstein vs Garrison Keiler

["RAUBER, JOEL" <JOEL_RAUBER@SDSTATE.EDU>]

Naturally the Google point of reference should be take with a large grain of
salt.  This is interesting and curious, anybody brave enough to e-mail
Keiler?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Bowman [mailto:dbowman@TIGER.GEORGETOWNCOLLEGE.EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 12:10 PM
> To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
> Subject: Re: Einstein vs Garrison Keiler
>
>
> ng Bob S.'s question:
>
> > On today's (Jan 23) "Writer's Almanac" NPR program, Garrison
> Keiler said:
> > "It's the birthday of experimental poet Louis Zukofsky, born
> on the Lower
> > East Side of New York City in 1904. He once wrote, '
> Everything should be
> > as simple as it can be...not simpler.' "
> >
> > I always thought this was an Einstein quote.  Can anyone add
> info one way
> > or the other?
>
> Interesting.  I, as well, had always seen the quote attributed to
> Einstein.  I wonder who was first. One point of reference is that a
> quick Google search on the phrase:
>
> +"should be as simple as possible" +"but not simpler" +Einstein
>
> yielded 652 hits.  But a search on the phrase:
>
> +"should be as simple as possible" +"but not simpler" +Zukofsky
>
> yielded zero hits.  Also a Google search on:
>
> +"should be as simple as it can be...not simpler" +Zukofsky
>
> yielded exactly 1 hit, and that was the MPR site for Keillor's
> radio almanac.
>
> David Bowman