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		forty 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI... "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 :)
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dingaling 1 day 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.

bryanrasmussen 1 day ago | [–]

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

ecshafer 1 day ago | | [–]

Isn't it?

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