From: starmaker@ix.netcom.com   
      
   On Sat, 08 Nov 2025 19:18:59 -0800, The Starmaker   
    wrote:   
      
   >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.   
      
   https://reachone01.github.io/%E4%BC%A0%E8%AE%B0/Einstein/Einstei   
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