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� Is It Coulter's 15 Minutes Yet? | Main | Dropping Spammers from Great Heights �I'm such an Internet-based human being now that I don't quite know how to authoritatively source a quote attribute to Einstein: The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat. It sounds genuine. You can find this quote all over the place. But I want to cite the newspaper, book, or other account it comes from. It can't have come from thin air. I'd dig up some print biographies, but I have doubts that this quote would be indexed in the back.
Posted by Glennf at September 7, 2002 7:21 PM
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See http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0001AA08-864C-1D49-90FB809EC5880000 last paragraph or so.
Posted by: A Friend at October 23, 2003 3:35 PM
You misunderstand. If the quote is legit, Einstein said it to somebody and it was published somewhere. I want to find not a book in which it is quoted from some other source, but the book, newspaper article, or other publication in which the quote originally appeared written by the person who heard Einstein say it or by Einstein himself in a book or article he wrote.
Posted by: Glenn Fleishman at September 9, 2002 5:55 PM
Why is it necessarily more trustworthy if it's printed in a book? You saw this?
Posted by: Rick Bruner at September 9, 2002 5:11 PM
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