Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
trebor@velocity.net http://www.velocity.net/~trebor
----- Original Message -----
From: "RAUBER, JOEL" <JOEL_RAUBER@SDSTATE.EDU>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: Einstein vs Garrison Keiler
| 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
| >