From: starmaker@ix.netcom.com
On Sat, 08 Nov 2025 11:12:39 -0800, The Starmaker
wrote:
>On Sat, 8 Nov 2025 13:37:43 +0100, nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J.
>Lodder) wrote:
>
>>The Starmaker wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 06 Nov 2025 22:03:07 -0800, The Starmaker
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> >While there is a later anecdote describing Einstein as unimpressed
>>> >about the experimental results, and sure of his theory even in the
>>> >absence of evidence (stating, when asked what he would have said if
>>> >the results had been otherwise, "Then I would feel sorry for the dear
>>> >Lord. The theory is correct anyway.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single
>>> >experiment can prove me wrong. Albert Einstein
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >Both comments above contradict each other
>>> >
>>> >One Einstein sez "a single experiment can prove me wrong. "
>>> >
>>> >and the other ", "Then I would feel sorry for the dear Lord. The
>>> >theory is correct anyway."
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >and *any* experiment that proves him right????
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >i don't get it.
>>>
>>> Ok, too much information for yous too follow..
>>>
>>> Let's just take One of Einsteins's comments...
>>>
>>> "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single
>>> experiment can prove me wrong." -- Albert Einstein
>>>
>>> How many times are those stupid Science News reporters going to
>>> say Einstein Right Again when Einstein himself said...
>>>
>>> "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right;..."????
>>>
>>> then you have people here posting
>>> experiments made by other proving Albert Einstein Right when Einstein
>>> himself said:
>>>
>>> "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right;.."
>>>
>>>
>>> Are these people retarded?
>>
>>No, it is you.
>>
>>> I cannot find any other explaination for this.
>>
>>The explanation is quite simple, really:
>>Einstein never said any of those things,
>>
>>Jan
>
>
>“Induction
>and Deduction,” December 25, 1919, CPAE, Vol. 7,
>Doc. 28
>
>
>quote published by those retards at:
>
>Copyright © 2011 by Princeton University Press and
>The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"Induction and Deduction" is the English translation of an essay by
Albert Einstein titled "Induktion und Deduktion in der Physik". It was
originally published in the German newspaper Berliner Tageblatt on
December 25, 1919.
The citation "CPAE, Vol. 7, Doc. 28" refers to this essay as Document
28 in Volume 7 of the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein.
In the essay, written shortly after his theory of general relativity
was famously confirmed by eclipse observations, Einstein discusses the
nature of scientific theory and knowledge. He explains that while
observation and experience are essential, no amount of experimentation
can definitively "prove" a theory to be correct because a future
observation might always contradict its consequences (the principle of
fallibilism or falsifiability). He argues that scientific theories are
free inventions of the human mind that are tested against empirical
facts. The essay has been noted for its resonance with Karl Popper's
later philosophy of science regarding falsification.
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to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable,
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